We have all gotten used to the daily deluge of details surrounding the decades of abuse across every industry. The sheer number of new allegations has become a tidal wave pushing systematic issues and rampant abuses of power into the light. The more stories that are shared, the stronger the current.
That’s the attitude of filmmaker and artist Zohar Kfir. Her new platform, launching this week, aims to be the largest archive of sexual assault testimonies. The multimedia site will allow people anywhere in the world to upload their own testimonies in text, audio and video that will serve as a database and support group for survivors.
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Each glowing orb shares a story of another survivor. ©Zohar Kfir
The Testimony Project, created by Kfir, began as a VR documentary, which was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival, featuring the testimonies of five sexual assault survivors. Let’s be honest. A VR experience about sexual assault sounds more than triggering – it sounds terrifying. But the documentary is a safe space for survivors to share their statements with soft tonal music, light-speckled space and pathways connecting one person’s story to the next. It doesn’t focus on the assault itself. Instead, it looks at what happened to the survivor’s families, relationships and the legal system after the assault.
“We wanted to concentrate on the points that not a lot of people discuss: the aftermath of abuse and highlighting the flaws in the legal system, highlighting the experience that survivors go through in the system,” said Kfir.
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Source: Forbes