Replica / Real / Replica

EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) | 4K 23mins + 15K 360 3D 12mins

Produced for EPFL’s exhibition Deep Fakes: Art and its Double. Replica / Real / Replica takes two forms. A digital film - a 4K, equirectangular lensed, 23 minute seamlessly looping film with soundtrack and an immersive media installation - a 15K, 360 film in 3D, touring the same spectacular locations visited within the film.

Replica / Real / Replica is a journey through five floors of meticulously restored rooms at The Sir John Soane Museum in London. Each space is filled with original and duplicate fragments of antiquity

ScanLAB Projects | Replica / Real / Replica

Two of the most iconic collections housed in Soane's building provide the starting point to venture further afield; we travel to the real and replica Tombs of King Seti I in the Valley of the Kings and its duplicate created by Factum Foundation, via Seti’s original Sarcophagus in the Soane’s sepulchral chamber; and to the infamous human casts set inside the ruins of Pompeii via Soane’s cork replica in the museums model room.

We visit both Egypt and Italy in forensic digital detail via their LiDAR doppelgangers. Within these models we find two of the most notorious facsimiles in the world: we discover the data used to create the Factum Foundations near-perfect replica of Kings Seti I’s Tomb, and we reveal the unexpected interior of the Pompeii casts, thought to be copies after originals are believed to have been destroyed by Allied raids in WWII.

Directed and Produced by ScanLAB Projects
Sound design by Pascal Wyse
Original 3D scan data collected by;
Sir John Soane’s Museum - ScanLAB Projects
Pompeii Archaeological Park - ScanLAB Projects
Luxor & Valley of the Kings - The Polytechnic University of Turin
Seti I Sarcophagus - Factum Foundation
Seti I Tomb (KV17) - Factum Foundation

With special thanks to:

Helen Dorey, Deputy Director and Inspectress - The Sir John Soane’s Museum
Dr. Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Mohamed El Seaidy, Director of Scientific Office of the Secretary General Of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities
Marianne Tames-Demauras, Archaeological Scientist & Egyptologist, University of Cambridge.
Professor Franco Porcelli, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Polytechnic University of Turin
Nannina Spanò, Associate Professor Polytechnic University of Turin
Filiberto Chiabrando, Associate Professor Polytechnic University of Turin
Professor Massimo Osanna, Director General, General Director, Parco Archeologico di Pompei
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