CITY DUMMIES is an evolving series of born-digital works, marking a departure from traditional filmmaking technologies to emerging post-cinematic engines (namely: Unreal Engine). Depicting a fictional yet hyper-realistic stylized city, fragmented cityscapes—and the activities that occur in them—form an intricate puzzle. Based on almost 20 years of experience as a visual artist working with spatial scenography, light, sound, and video, CITY DUMMIES brings deep knowledge and expertise from the physical to the virtual.

A first presentation of the project premiered on the 17th of December 2022 at Rosenfeld Gallery Tel Aviv, running until the 11th of February.

The show was powered by Niio, a curated platform for the preservation, acquisition, and display of digital and video art. The project was supported by NEUSTART KULTUR Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V. Modul D (Digitale Vermittlungsformate)

CGI: Rachid Moro (lead), Maximilian Blank, Siwei Cai

Original soundtracks: AIREM (Rachid Moro), Daphna Keenan 

Installation view Rosenfeld Gallery: Tal Nisim

Videos from the series can be seen on request.