Museum of Austerity
Experienced through Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 headset, Museum of Austerity combines verbal testimony, original music, and volumetric capture to preserve memories of public and private events from the austerity era.
The Austerity Era refers to a decade-long campaign of government budget-cutting that began in the UK in 2010, following the global financial crisis of 2008. The government programme included reductions in spending on welfare, the police, road maintenance, and prisons, among others.
Winner IDFA DocLab Immersive Non-Fiction 2021
The remaining emptiness of the museum hall when you take your glasses off is remarkable. We have been looking at ghosts.
— Volkskrant
These stories grab you by the throat and don’t let you go.
— Cultureel Pers Bureau
Credits
- Directed by
- Sacha Wares
- Specialist Advisor & Co-Editor (Text)
- John Pring
- Stage Designer
- Miriam Buether
- Sound Designer
- Gareth Fry
- Composer
- Adrian Lee
- Lighting Designer
- Prema Metha
- Movement Director
- Leon Baugh
- Produced By
- English Touring Theatre (ETT)
National Theatre Immersive Storytelling Studio
Trial and Error Studio
- Volumetric Capture
- Dimension Studio
- MR Production
- All Seeing Eye
Cast
- Errol
- Shango Baku
- Diane
- Jenny Bolt
- James
- Gerard McDermott
- Phillipa
- Katie Mastell
- David
- S.J O’Kane
- Moira
- Lindy Pieri
- Mark
- Elliot Pritchard
- Sophie
- Naima Swaleh
For All Seeing Eye
- Creative Director
- Ollie Lindsey
- Technical Director
- Adam Child
- Unity Developers
- Clarice Hilton
Robin North
Sam Vickery
- 3D Artist
- Chris Linington
For National Theatre Immersive Storytelling Studio
- Producer
- Toby Coffey
- Audience Experience
- Benjamin Jacob-Smith
- Technician
- Roderick Morgan
For English Touring Theatre
- Producers
- Richard Twyman
Sophie Scull
Andrew Hughes