Lights of Africa (rushes) – Unfinished project. 3D Video by Soic Miterne, Paris, October 1999. Watch more video archives.

The backstory

At that time, for a few months, 3D creation was my favourite canvas and colours, giving rise to a number of attempts and experiments, including my very first videos and Lights of Africa. Made on my very first Intel Pentium computer and LightWave 3D, I explored briefly the potential of these new tools. I was delighted to discover that 3D software could be a virtual shooting studio where all sorts of configurations are possible. Obviously, as in any process of learning and discovery, I first tried to reproduce reality, and here I’m reproducing one of my recurring visions, the origin of which I still can’t explain: the desert.