VIRTUAL EMBALMING, an award winning film for Nowness.
This specific sequence is curated by topmodel Kim Peers.
She was asked the question: " How do you want to be remembered in the future?". These digital memorials are a way to project ourselves into the distant future and be remembered by generations to come, exactly as we want to be. Heyman used 3D scans to create frozen moments in time, digital installations constructed out of relics of the past. This was not only to conserve what once was, but also to recycle the present and an attempt to shape the future. These images, whether based on fact or fiction, tell us how people want to remember and be remembered. They expose the desire to overcome time, space and a physical presence.
