Projects

Projects

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Red Tail EP.1

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Produced by: Yi-Ching CHEN, Zero One Film, Funique VR, Kaohsiung Film Archive, Taiwan Public Television Service Foundation

Directed by: Fish Wang

Original title: 紅尾巴 EP.1

Lead artist: Fish Wang

Runtime: 7min

Language: English, Mandarin

Completed in: 2021

Synopsis:

At a train station floating in the cloud, a mysterious red tail catches the boy’s attention. Chasing the red tail, the boy has traveled through countless magical places, ran into the bizarre creatures, and finally he meets the gentleman, who seems to know his secrets more than he does. When the red tail reminds the boy of his own memory and sadness, what’s the secrets hiding behind, and where will it lead him next?

Director’s statement:

During the period of growing from children to adults, numerous struggles happen. Teenagers are eager to be understood, while the physical changes of their bodies are easy to be noticed, the dramatic inner transformations are often ignored. Through this VR work, I would like to let the viewers know: We all have red tails, as pain is a part of growing up. Let’s enjoy our lives with tears and laughter, and we’ll all become a better self.

Origin: Taiwan

Devices: HTC Vive series/Oculus Rift series/Quest

Platform: Alexandria

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Delightful Garden VR – Sights of Sins by Hieronymus Bosch

Genre: Art/Culture, Educational, Narrative

Produced by: Michael Gödde, Videoreality GmbH

Directed by: Carolin Wedler

Original title: Delightful Garden VR. Eine Virtual Reality Erfahrung im Garten der Lüste von Hieronymus Bosch

Lead artist: Carolin Wedler

Runtime: 20min

Language: English

Completed in: 2021

Synopsis:

In the virtual reality experience DelightfulGardenVR, visitors can literally step through the canvas into Hieronymus Bosch’s « Garden of Delights » painting and experience an exciting adventure inside. The contents of the original painting were reconstructed in 3D and brought to life. The user learns more about the painting’s theme and motifs by helping a desperate garden inhabitant stoping his fellow human beings from sinning, in order to preserve the paradisiacal garden.

Director’s statement:

6 years ago our tiny team began the giant attempt to bring Hieronymus Bosch’s famous painting « The Garden of Earthly Delights » to life. To utilise the power of Virtual Reality and step through the canvas into the painting, to materialise this ancient world of symbolism and unparalleled imagination. We wanted to visit this place that doesn’t exist, so creating it turned out to be one of the most valuable journeys we went on. Today we can finally take other people with us into the garden.

Origin: Germany, Hessen

Devices: HTC Vive series/Oculus Rift series/Quest

Platform: Alexandria

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Glimpse

Genre: Animation, Drama

Produced by: Lee Harris, Mr Kite Ltd, Albyon

Directed by: Benjamin Cleary, Michael O'Connor

Original title: Glimpse

Lead artist: Benjamin Cleary, Michael O'Connor

Runtime: 23min

Language: English (French Subtitles)

Completed in: 2021

Synopsis:

A panda called Herbie is holed up in his illustrator studio after a bad breakup with a talented deer called Rice. Using Herbie’s art we delve back through the memories of their relationship from the heartbreaking end to the beautiful beginning; a dreamlike voyage through his mind, his heart and his illustrations.

Director’s statement:

Over the course of the piece we want someone to experience the full force of falling in love, dancing with another soul for a while and then losing that love as it all becomes a cosmos of memories.
Bringing Glimpse to life has been one of the most challenging and fulfilling projects we have ever undertaken. We set out to help define the grammar of immersive storytelling and contribute to the emerging canon.

Origin: UK, France, Ireland

Devices: HTC Vive series/Oculus Rift series/Quest w/link

Platform: Alexandria

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Luna: Episode 1 – Left Behind

Genre: Animation

Produced by: Charuvit Wannissorn

Directed by: Charuvit Wannissorn

Original title: Luna: Episode 1 - Left Behind

Lead artist: Charuvit Wannissorn

Runtime: 5min (Demo)

Language: English

Completed in: 2022

Synopsis:

LUNA: EPISODE 1 – LEFT BEHIND is an interactive VR story about an android and a little girl trying to survive an AI apocalypse. The machines seem to be after only one goal: to exterminate its creators. You, a small commercial droid, wake up and find your system to be reset. Can you, a droid with no combat capabilities, protect Luna? Can humanity be saved?

Origin: Canada

Devices: Oculus Quest series

Platform: VeeR

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Genesis

Genre: Adventure, Documentary, Historical

Produced by: Maria Courtial, Faber Courtial - In cooperation with Telekom Magenta VR

Directed by: Jörg Courtial

Original title: Genesis

Lead artist: Jörg Courtial

Runtime: 13min

Language: English, German

Completed in: 2021

Synopsis:

GENESIS embarks on an emotionally intense virtual reality journey to experience the dramatic milestones in the evolution of earth and mankind. An immersive 24 h metaphor of 4.7 bn years of evolution that reveals: We are children of galactic luck, born in the final second of eternity.

Director’s statement:

It took an eternity for the Earth to become the place we know and then came a being who, in the blink of an eye, actively changed the planet like nothing before. Our film tells our story. So far children of galactic luck. Our planet lies in the habitable zone, equipped to protect us from a hostile universe, yet it is no longer cosmic catastrophes that threaten us, but we ourselves. The greatest extinction of species happened 250 mya ending an era of immense diversity of life forms. It cannot be ruled out that this catastrophe will be repeated due to our influence on environmental conditions.

Origin: Germany

Devices: HTC Vive series/Oculus Rift series/Quest

Platform: VeeR, Alexandria

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Marco & Polo Go Round

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Romance

Produced by: Audrey Pacart, Paul-E. Audet, Pierre Even, Alain-Gilles Viellevoye, Item 7, Belga Productions

Directed by: Benjamin Steiger Levine

Original title: Marco & Polo Go Round

Lead artist: Benjamin Steiger Levine

Runtime: 12min

Language: English, French

Completed in: 2021

Synopsis:

On the morning of his birthday, Marco discovers the cake Polo has lovingly made and left for him on the kitchen table. He also notices that every object in the kitchen has been battened down with tape and twine as if to safeguard against an oncoming storm. What begins as a beautiful morning for the young couple takes a surreal turn when their world literally falls apart around them.

Director’s statement:

For years, images of a sun-drenched kitchen slowly coming apart as gravity mysteriously turned on its head kept playing through my mind. I began to realize the kitchen in my mind looked a lot like the one I shared with my first girlfriend, a person who I loved in ways that were not realistic and who ultimately broke my heart. And so, Marco and Polo’s adventure was born, inspired by intimate lived experiences that play out in a world where gravity is coming apart.
To explore the beauty, mystery, heartache of love in the context of a dreamlike, visceral, action sequence seemed unique to me. My hope is that Marco & Polo Go Round introduces adult audiences to VR content that is a physical thrill ride as well as emotionally honest and fulfilling.

Origin: Canada, Belgium

Plateform: Not Available

Goes to Cannes

Back to the Sea of my Deseaced

Category: SANFIC Industria Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Esteban García Garzón

Produced by: Ivette Liang (Galaxia 311), Marco Antonio Salgado (Cinema226)

Country of production: México, Colombia

Original title: Regreso al Mar de mis Muertos

Genre: Feature film

Language: Español

Runtime: 75min

Completed in: 2022

Chico (11) lives with Ismelda (71), his Wayúu grandmother, by a sidewalk in the Colombian Guajira. A couple of years after Sara’s death, Chico’s mother, he begins to dream of his indigenous ancestors who ask him to go back to his mother’s bones in Jepirra, the sacred place of the Wayúu.

Goes to Cannes

A Place of Our Own

Category: Film Bazaar Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Ektara Collective

Produced by: Ektara Collective

Country of production: India

Original title: Ek Jagah Apni

Genre: Feature film

Language: Hindi

Runtime: 90min

Completed in: 2022

Laila and Roshni, two transwomen, are looking for a house after they are evicted from the place they rented. It soon becomes evident that their search for a home is also their ongoing search for a place in this society that wants to keep them away in a section that can not be the centre.

Goes to Cannes

Chrysantemum Day

Category: Tallinn Black Nights Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Simon Mozgovyi

Produced by: Alex Chepiga, Artem Koliubaiev, Daryna Zakharova, Kateryna Lachyna (Mainstream Pictures LLC)

Country of production: Ukraine, North Macedonia

Original title: Свято Хризантем

Genre: Feature film

Language: Ukrainian

Runtime: 90min

Completed in: 2023

A story of relations between a young medical doctor and her patient – an old “flower-woman”, known as a healer, who mysteriously survives a nuclear explosion having completely lost her memory and identity. With clear orders to achieve results, the doctor manages to bring back some memory bit by bit, but these remembrances became unbearable for the old Healer…

Goes to Cannes

A Room of His Own

Category: HAF Goes to Cannes

Directed by: Matan YAIR

Produced by: Maya FISCHER, Green Productions

Country of production: Israel, Italy

Original title: A Room of His Own

Genre: Feature film

Language: Hebrew

Runtime: 80min

Completed in: 2022

Since Uri’s father moved out, Uri’s mother has been sleeping in Uri’s room. However, Uri is seeking his own path and his own room to deal with this world.