In a galaxy far, far away, two aliens explore how humans consume life, and how life consumes them.
From their recently established interplanetary institution of Humaneaty™ HQ, we meet two alien ambassadors who specialize in researching human behavior. The aliens decide to take global action and spread urgent remedies for the health of humanity using nothing more (or less) than streaming (and human) technology.
FROM CELLPHONES TO POTATO CHIPS
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FROM CELLPHONES TO POTATO CHIPS 〰️
HUMANEATY TV explores new forms of narrative at the intersection of food, technology, play, and the senses. By using play as a modality, it invites critical reflection on the consumption of technology in everyday life, reimagining how we interact with the digital world. Led by two shiny ‘aliens’ serving as both facilitators and symbols of self-reflection, this practice remixes Futurism into the Digital Age by leveraging cooking, eating, and technology as mediums of daily consumption to provoke a new gaze onto the habits of human life. Through absurdist expression, speculative fabulation, interactive technologies, and 90’s futuristic aesthetics, it questions reality and casts new light on habituated patterns of behavior. In this alien storyworld, ‘food’ is anything consumed regularly (from cellphones to potato chips!), ‘smart objects’ are dumb, and ‘cooking’ becomes a framework for co-creating rituals that feed the human spirit instead of the body.
HUMANEATY TV derived from award-winning project Eat Tech Kitchen. This surreal kitchen installation and dinner party transforms recipes into performances with the audience, catalyzing absurd behaviors around (and with) our 21st-century technology as ingredients. The HUMANEATY TV series continues its mission to explore the absurdities of our daily "digital diets."
Step into the absurd and delicious world of Humaneaty TV, where food, tech, and play collide to reimagine our digital souls.
HUMANEATY TV EPISODES
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HUMANEATY TV EPISODES 〰️
Episode 1: Digital Souls
This week on HUMANEATY TV, we cook up better connections to the Gods of the Internet and save you from roaming fees with the Digital Souls Recipe.
Epidose 3: Cocktail of Grief
This week on HUMANEATY TV, we’re mixing a Cocktail of Grief to improve your vulnerability on the Internet and gain authentic likes.
Epidose 5: Amuse Telebouche
This week on HUMANEATY TV, doom scroll in the most delicious way with the Amuse Telebouche!
Epidose 2: The Unfriend Ritual
This week on HUMANEATY TV, we serve up a detox from fake friends! With the Unfriend Ritual!
Epidose 4: Smooth Technology Smoothy
This week on HUMANEATY TV, we blend away bad connections to make a Smooth technology Smoothie!
Epidose 6: Tinder Tenders
This week on HUMANEATY TV, get over the heartbreak of online dating with TINDER TENDERS!
THE HUMANS AND ALIENS BEHIND HUMANEATY TV
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THE HUMANS AND ALIENS BEHIND HUMANEATY TV 〰️
Humaneaty TV is a project by
Emilie Baltz & Klasien van de Zandschulp
Script & Concept
Emilie Balz & Klasien van de Zandschulp
Film Shoot Directed by
Elle Kunnos de Voss
Director of Photography
John L Murphy
Produced by
FRAUHAUS
Assistant Director
Linnea Larsdotter Mikkela
Sound
Signe Bengtsson
Production Design
Elle Kunnos de Voss
Prop Master
Johnny Taranto
Editor
Signe Bengtsson
Graphic & Motion Design
Sasha Fominskaya / LAVA Beijing
CAST
Alien E
Emilie Balz
Alien K
Klasien van de Zandschulp
Narrator
Tim Baltz
Mathilda
Ellinor DiLorenzo
Emma
Banu Şahinoğlu
Gus
Qasim Naqvi
Harvey
Burak Adler
Angela
Franca Paschen
Nick
Nicholas Motyka
With special thanks to
Anahita Mekanik
Rachel Ginsberg
Berk Ilhan
John Syzonenko
Lindsey Crozier
Eden Lew
Nicholas Motyka
Burak Adler
Banu Şahinoğlu
HUMANEATY was Supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL and in part by Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Lab Programs with a grant from Turner.