New Dimensions: A Virtual Reality Exhibition

Clouds Over Sidra Gabo Arora and Chris Milk Clouds Over Sidra is a Virtual Reality film commissioned as part of the UN’s advocacy at the World Economic Forum in Davos to state and business leaders. Clouds Over Sidra follows a twelve year old in the Za’atari camp in Jordan – home to 84,000 Syrian refugees. It follows her to school, to her makeshift tent and to the football pitch. This innovative VR project experiments with using new technologies to create solidarity with those who are normally excluded and overlooked, amplifying their voices and explaining their situations. The same creative team have recently released Waves of Grace, a Virtual Reality film about an Ebola survivor called Decontee Davis in Liberia.

Strangers with Patrick Watson Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël, Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski Strangers with Patrick Watson invites the viewer to spend an intimate moment with celebrated Montreal musician Patrick Watson at work in his studio loft on a winter’s day. This was one of the first Virtual Reality projects that gave filmmakers that aha moment about the potential for VR and a sense of presence in filmmaking.

Kaiju Fury!

Gabo Arora and Chris Milk A newly invented dark matter power source tears the fabric of space/ time, attracting giant, mutant creatures to Earth. The team who built the deadly device must now fight through a crumbling city and reverse the flow of energy before the beasts destroy humanity. This is an epic and entertaining Virtual Reality homage to classic Kaiju films.

This exhibition is part of the #AfricanFutures festival www.goethe.de/africanfutures

www.kaijufuryvr.com/#kaijufury

www.felixandpaul.com/projects/strangers/

www.vrse.works/clouds-over-sidra/

Pandora Jonathan Dotse and Kabiru Seidu

Polar Sea 360

Ethiocolor 360

Vice News VR: Millions March NYC 12.13.14

Teddy Goitom, Senay Berhe, Benjamin Taft

NubianVR presents Pandora, an experimental 360-degree short film made in Ghana. Follow Pandora as she journeys through the dreamscape of virtual Accra, where the ancient Greek myth is re-imagined in an African context, and retold through the looking-glass of virtual reality.

A 360 degree documentary exploring the drastically changing Arctic landscape through the eyes of the Inuit. They grew up as nomads, following and hunting herds of arctic deer but this way of life is changing.

Discover their home and the challenges and opportunities they face as you fly across the Arctic in a helicopter and sail through the icy waters.

This is part of a multi-media expedition through the Northwest Passage, composed of an in-depth website, a mobile app, a 360° interactive film and a 10-part documentary TV series.

Ethiocolor is an Addis Ababa based group consisting of musicians from three different generations. The group is recognized for their vibrant live shows where traditional instruments are arranged in contemporary style together with the rhythmic dance Ekista. This 360 degree music video was filmed on the roof of the National Theater in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia using just one GoPro camera.

Pandora was directed and produced by Jonathan Dotse and Kabiru Seidu.

The part of ‘Pandora’ was played by Doris Mamley Djangmah. Technical assistance was provided by Angelantonio Grossi. This project was kindly sponsored by Accra [dot] Alt, and features the soundtrack ‘Second Class Citizen’ by Dexter Britain. An earlier cut was first screened at a VR exhibition for the 2015 CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival in Jamestown, Accra.

What if, instead of watching a news broadcast about the latest protest, you could walk into it? Chris Milk, Spike Jonze, and VICE News have partnered to do just that, producing the first-ever Virtual Reality news broadcast, and bringing a new dimension to coverage of the recent protests against police killings in the United States. The film, VICE News VR: Millions March, takes viewers into the rally that saw 60,000 protesters descend on the streets of New York to demand greater police accountability.

http://polarsea360.arte.tv/

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y3SHsxKbhk

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EsfGRvmZ98

www.vrse.works/vice-news-vr-millions-march/

Thomas Wallner

Chris Milk and Spike Jonze

N EW DIMENSIONS A VIRTUAL REALITY EXHIBITION

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Zero Point

Assent

Danfung Dennis

Oscar Raby

This was the first documentary shot for Virtual Reality by Academy Awardnominated filmmaker Danfung Dennis. From combat training simulations at the Department of Defense in the United States, to research labs at Stanford to indie game developers and hackers, this immersive video experience introduced audiences to the potential of Virtual Reality for documentary.

The Caravan of Death was a brutal campaign that executed military detainees in Chile during the aftermath of the coup in 1973. In this powerful and lyrical Virtual Reality documentary, media artist Oscar Raby puts the viewer in the footsteps of his father, who was an army officer, on the day when the Caravan of Death came to his regiment. Both tender and horrifying, Assent is an experience of a father-son relationship as they struggle with the events and emotions of that fateful day.

www.conditionone.com/ www.oscarraby.net/wp/assent/

Evolution of Verse Chris Milk Chris Milk, working with visual effects powerhouse Digital Domain, has created this photo-realistic CGI-rendered 3-D Virtual Reality film that takes the viewer on a journey from beginning to new beginning. Chris Milk is the groundbreaking creative behind an award-winning body of work focused on using cross-media innovations to enhance human storytelling.

His previous work includes The Johnny Cash Project, The Wilderness Downtown with Arcade Fire, and Sound and Vision with Beck. He has recently created the Vrse.works collective which utilizes custom built tools and proprietary technology to craft and curate original immersive experiences www.vrse.works/evolution-of-verse-2/

This unique event is part of the African Futures festival: three concurrent interdisciplinary festivals taking place in Johannesburg, Lagos and Nairobi which will explore the continent’s future, following potential narratives and artistic expression in literature, fine arts, performance, music, film, and various digital formats.

Way To Go Vincent Morisset

Clouds Jonathan Minard and James George

Way To Go is a magical interactive experience for human beings between 5 and 105 years old. At a moment when we have access to so much, and see so little, Way to Go will remind you of all that lies before you, within you, in the luscious, sudden pleasure of discovery. Are you alone? Are you not alone? Are you dreaming or awake? Can you ever reach the mountains?

This is a delightful experience from Vincent Morisset, the man behind BLA BLA and Just a Reflektor. It was produced by the National Film Board of Canada who are behind many incredible interactive projects.

A generation of artists and hackers have emerged on the internet, inventing open source technologies for art and design. CLOUDS is an interactive documentary and a portrait of this community of digital pioneers explored through the lens of code and networks. It’s a story about software, created using software. In its hybrid format, somewhere between a documentary and a videogame, CLOUDS allows viewers to follow their curiosity through a network of ideas and conversations about art and code visualized in immersive 3D generated worlds. It was shot using Depthkit, a new visual format that merges regular camera footage with depth data from Microsoft Kinnect.

www.a-way-to-go.com/

www.cloudsdocumentary.com/

Join Big World Cinema and the Goethe-Institut South Africa for a virtual reality (VR) exhibition in Johannesburg. Come and try out the best in the latest VR content on Samsung Gear and Oculus Rift.

29-31 OCTOBER 2015 Goethe-Institut.

119 JAN SMUTS AVE. PARKWOOD. JHB. 2193 10.00 - 17.00 DAILY. FREE ENTRANCE. FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED.

Herders Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël Mongolian pastoral herders are one of the world’s last remaining nomadic cultures. For millennia they have lived on the steppes, grazing their livestock on the grasslands. Through a series of Virtual Reality experiences, the viewer is invited into the reality of a nomadic family of yak herders.

Félix Lajeunesse and Paul Raphaël joined forces as filmmakers and visual artists in 2006. Their collaborative work has resulted in award-winning stereoscopic 3D films and multimedia installations presented across the world. www.felixandpaul.com/projects/herders/

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