Kevin Peter He is an artist, filmmaker, and dancer based in Brooklyn whose work bridges cinema, live performance, and game engines to create living stories.
PASSAGE
Realtime Audiovisual Series: Performance & Installation
What would nature become if shaped by machines? How does life persist within systems of control? Passage is an evolving speculative project that explores the entanglement between ecology and synthetic infrastructure. Spanning live cinema performance, sculptural installation, and fragrance, it invites audiences into a world where organic life and machine systems grow inseparably.
FLUX
Audiovisual Live Cinema Performance
Flux is an experimental 3D live cinema that explores the emotions of turbulence and acceptance through the story of an android discovering what it means to be human. Co-directed and performed by visual artist Kevin Peter He and musician Jake Oleson, this virtual performance aims to infuse the expressiveness of electronic music into the cinematic language using Unreal Engine.
MIZU - prphtbrd
CGI Music Video
The prphtbrd music video is an avant-garde exploration of harshness and chaos, crafted entirely through digital means. In a dark and abstract reminiscent of a dense forest, a 3D-scanned avatar of MIZU flickers and warps from a human into a tree, then a bird. The hybrid figure rises as a testament to the possibilities of the digital as the realm of self-discovery.
DOORS WE OPEN
Interactive Short Film
Doors We Open is a screen-based interactive film that alternates between live action film and 3D gameplay to explore the relationship of an estranged father and daughter struggling to connect over generational trauma. The story uses the two mediums as a metaphor for the divide between how we present ourselves to family and our thoughts below the surface. Doors We Open is part of Tribeca Festival 2023.
FLUME x COACHELLA AR
Live Concert Broadcast AR
In 2022, Coachella partnered with Epic Games to incorporate AR visuals into its festival livestream, first of its kind. We worked with Flume’s artistic team to create massive psychedelic 3D images that blended in seamlessly with his stage design and set, floating around the artist and into the Indio sky.
OPN - A BARELY LIT PATH
Virtual Production Music Video
Virtual production for Oneohtrix Point Never’s music video A Barely Lit Path utilizing a real-time playable AV system on ZeroSpace’s LED wall in a car process shoot.
KOZABURO SS24
Fashion Creative Direction
SS24 Creative Direction for the LVMH prize winning Japanese fashion brand KOZABURO. Made the mythical landscape of "The Land of Setting Sun” come to life through a virtual lookbook shoot, fashion film shot on a NYC subway, and NYFW runway show with full scenic install.
PET-TREE-KOR AW23
Fashion Brand Video
AW23 video for fashion brand pet-tree-kor takes its cues from the brand’s name, a re-spelling of "petrichor," and the underlying philosophy centered on the interdependent connection between urban humans and nature. As the video unfolds, the coexistence of organic foliage and industrial metal evolves from a stark contrast into a seamless harmony, blending within the forest setting. The video was presented as an installation at Dover Street Market Beijing.
A$AP ROCKY - CHILD’S PLAY
Virtual Production Campaign Video
Child’s Play is the campaign video for A$AP Rocky’s collaboration with PUMA. Blending German expressionism with a vibrant and playful world, the video shows how when we grow up we so often lose our child-like spirit and imagination. This campaign serves as a reminder to never limit your imagination or lose sight of your dreams.
RTFKT PROJECT ANIMUS & MNLTH 3
Interactive Twitch Live Stream
In 2022, RTFKT launched three groundbreaking interactive Twitch live stream experiences, where thousands of people engaged with 3D immersive worlds in real time through their comments, which influenced how the story would unfold.