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At the Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm, an exhibition is now on display, We Are Seediq, about an indigenous Taiwanese people. Central to the exhibition is the 360 film, which encloces the viewer in a gigantic panorama. How did we manage to create it? The collaboration with Etnografiska, Swedish Frames, Mevida and composer Henrik Lörstad turned out to be a hit.

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Museum of Ethnography

Panorama video

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360-degree film projection at Museum of Ethnography

People of the Seeiq tribe are standing in a circle looking up at the camera

The exhibition We Are Seediq has been awarded the Swedish Design Award “Gold”

We are Seediq is an experimental exhibition developed in co-creation and research collaboration with the Seediq indigenous people of Taiwan and in collaboration between the National Museums of World Culture in Sweden, the Seediq National Assembly in Taiwan, and the Indigenous Cultural Heritage Program of Providence University in Taiwan.

Architecture: Olsson Lyckefors, winners of the Kasper Salin Prize.

Graphic design and visual identity: multi award winning Gabor Palotai Design.

360 panorama film and motion pictures: Swedish Frames

Exhibition: Medea Ekner Enosis - Art, Leadership & Innovation

Gábor Palotai is working across genres in both art and design. His studio, Gabor Palotai Design is an independent and creative owned design studio working across genres in both graphic design and art. The studio embraces a holistic concept of visual culture.

They create and develop, design and deliver visual brand identities, art direction, graphic design, editorial design, exhibition design, digital design, packaging design, experience and environmental design across all media.

The film "Work in Stockholm" documents the indigenous people's search for their roots and history. The fact that an indigenous people from Taiwan takes Stockholm for help to find its origins has its explanation in the museum's way of working.

Medea Ekner from the Ethnographic Museum made the vision clear early on. With the help of 12 projectors, a 100 square meter circular screen and eight separate sound channels, the indigenous people would have a permanent place in Stockholm, in the heart of the museum.

Genuine landscape images from the indigenous environment in Taiwan have been stitched together into the circular format using VR and Unreal. Entering the Stockholm Room is a journey through time and space. Authenticity is central to the project, each mountain peak has been approved by the museum and Taiwan in cooperation.

View over forest covered mountains. The sky is blue and gloomy

Forest covered mountains and text blocks

View of a house, two people and a view over a lake and forest

behind the scenes

A man sitting at a desk working on his computer with sound editing

Composing, music and sound for an enclosing film is something different from Cinema. Henrik Lörstad's sound work mixes local sound impressions with several languages - Swedish, Mandarin and English.

Behind "We Are Seediq" lies extensive technical work - but where storytelling is at center. Editor and VFX artist Johanna Gåhlin carefully handled the material during the editing process.

A woman sitting at a desk working on her computer with editing

Anastaisa Matuszewski is a VFX artist at Swedish Frames. Her mission was to create lifelike panoramas from a large collection of films and still images, all in dialogue with on-site representatives in Taiwan.