UP Film: Relay Point Omega- A Film on Revolution

Society is full of people who want change and desperately call for revolution but do not actively do anything to achieve it. This is what writer/filmmaker Alexander Ikawah is addressing in the dystopian film, Relay Point Omega.

The film, set in a futuristic Nairobi, was first screened in the Tuonane Siku Za Usoni Digital Art Installation hosted by Goethe Institut at the Shifteye Gallery as is made possible by a grant from the Goethe Institute.It explores the use of Youtube annotations to provide an interactive video experience. The writer created two different possible endings to the film which follows a young slum girl who finds herself in the middle of a revolution after witnessing a brutal police killing. She is then forced to make a choice to participate in a revolution that she was never part of. The audience then gets to pick whether they would help the revolutionaries or not.

According to Ikawah, most audience members chose to help the revolutionaries, at which point the film draws to an end. Majority however, wished to go back and see what the alternative ending would be. He also added that, given that this is not a very popular film genre, audience members got very different things out of the screening and interactive experience.

The film will be available to online audiences soon. Meanwhile here’s the trailer,

 

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