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29 October 2010

Glorious visions from animation and shadow: Miwa Matreyek on TED.com

Using animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery. Take a quiet 10 minutes and dive in. With music from Anna Oxygen, Mirah, Caroline Lufkin and Mileece. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2010, July 2010 in Oxford, England. Duration: 11:12)

Watch Miwa Matreyek’s performance on TED.com where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances from our archive of 800+ TEDTalks.

This performance is abridged from the full-length work “Myth and Infrastructure.”
Music credits:
Shadow Hands scene song: Anna Oxygen
Island scene song: “Shells” by Mirah, (a)spera, K records
City scene song: Caroline Lufkin
Magic Hands scene song: Anna Oxygen
Additional music: Mileece

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  • Nov 3 2010

    amazing video! i like it, very creative! :)

  • Jan 9 2012

    This video doesn’t work anymore, any way to fix it?


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