Virtual Reality

The design, as well as the technical and visual qualities of VR works are exponentially improving year by year. There are linear 360° films which we present in a VR cinema in four curated programme blocks, and six interactive experiences that will be presented as installations in the VR Zone at the DKO. Generally, the relationship of the VR experiences to the physical world is being significantly broadened by the use of elements of stage design or live action. In the Re-Animated installation, you will get a chance to walk on tree bark to experience forest on a very physical level. A prominent trend among the latest VR works is the focus on an analysis of artworks or artistic styles and their frequent motives include landscapes and ecosystems.

VR ZONE = VR installations & VR Cinema*

Venue: DKO ground floor
Opening hours: Oct 25 – 28 from 10.00 AM until 9.00 PM and on Oct 29 from 10.00 AM until 5.00 PM
Admission: daily pass for 80/160 CZK (festival pass holders/not accredited visitors)
Reservation of VR installations: no reservations
Reservations of individual VR Cinema screenings: online (50% of the capacity) / on-site (50% of the capacity + free seats)

* Please make sure to arrive in the VR Zone at least 15 minutes in advance.
* As part of your daily pass and upon prior reservation, you can visit all VR Cinema blocks and installation.

film database

A sonic portrait of Greenland. Molécule, a producer of electronic music, collects the sounds of the Arctic for his upcoming work. In the temperature of -22,7°, he searches for the imprints and sounds of natural processes and takes the audience on a journey through the creation of a musical artwork.

-22.7°C

Amaury La Burthe, Jan Kounen, Romain de La Haye-Sérafini (Molécule)

France / 2019 / 8 min.

section: Virtual Reality

This close-up observation of the dramatic situations and everyday activities experienced by Israeli soldiers represents the director’s appeal for dialogue, mutual understanding, and empathy as possible paths towards ending political conflict.

Battle Hymn

Yair Agmon

Israel / 2019 / 11 min.

section: Virtual Reality

This sophisticated tribute to the influential artistic movement known as Bauhaus realizes the stage experiments of Oskar Schlemmer and Walter Gropius in ways that have never been possible before. Using a Richard Siegal choreography during which the audience is free to come close to the dancers, this work explores the structured quality and the possibility to influence space while every element of the dance, musical, costumes, stage design and sound design is a reference to the Bauhaus style.

Das Totale Tanz Theater

Diana Schniedermeier , Maya Puig

Germany / 2018 / 8 min.

section: Virtual Reality

In 2014, members of the Boko Haram terrorist group kidnapped 276 adolescent girls from the Chibok farming community in Nigeria, and 112 of the girls have still not returned home. The film looks at the tragedy, contemporary life, and women’s rights through the characters of the girls’ mothers.

Daughters of Chibok

JOEL BENSON

Nigeria / 2019 / 11 min.

section: Virtual Reality

If our planet warms up 2 degrees Celsius, it will no longer be compatible with the contemporary human civilization. Each student of the Intermedia Studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology, while traveling in Kazakhstan, where the effects of global changes are becoming apparent, invents their own therapy, which should be a solution to this environmental grief. Other classmates pretend this specific diagnosis and collaborate on 'curing it'. Just as the planet is warming up and heading to an irreversible point, the group is heading to an increasingly hostile and incompatible environment with our civilization.

Diagnóza: Environmentální žal

Ateliér intermédia FaVU VUT

Czech Republic / 2019 / 8 min.

section: Virtual Reality

World Premiere

This harrowing documentary account of modern slavery on Indonesian fishing ships interconnects unique footage shot at the ships with the story of Tun Lin from Thailand who was kidnapped  at the age of 14 and worked as a slave on a ship for 14 years until he was saved by a humanitarian organization.

Ghost Fleet VR

Shannon Service, Lucas Gath

United States / 2018 / 8 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A virtual interpretation of a famous work by Arnold Böcklin, a Swiss symbolist painter, creates a fantastic world of the 1883 painting as a space of timelessness and a poetic existence during the boat trip with Charon the ferryman. The musical accompaniment is Rachmaninoff's symphonic poem inspired by the same painting.

Isle of the Dead

Benjamin Nuel

France / 2018 / 8 min.

section: Virtual Reality

An observation of the origin of components and the creation of digital products we use on a daily basis through a perspective on the work, environment, and the working and living conditions of the workers who mine the raw materials and work at a factory in Zhuhai, China where the products are assembled.

Made by Me: China

Alyssa Newman

China / 2018 / 6 min.

section: Virtual Reality

An episode from a trilogy which explores important works of fine art through their stories and an analysis which emphasizes the emotions and the effect on the senses of the spectator. This work dedicated to Monet's Water Lillies is dedicated to a painting which has been hidden from the broad public for many years. Thanks to historical research and new methods of analysis, new findings about its origin and creation can be presented.

Master´s vision: Claude Monet – The Water Lily obsession

Nicolas Thépot

France / 2018 / 5 min.

section: Virtual Reality

An evocation of the emotions and the learning and emotional processes that take place in our mind during sensitive communications situations between partners or during divorce, the film experiments primarily with possible ways of depicting different points of view in virtual reality.

Mind Palace

Carl Krause, Dominik Stockhausen

Germany / 2018 / 10 min.

section: Virtual Reality

The soldiers in the trenches of World War I were able to send postcards home but all they were allowed to write on them was their signature. All communication took place using a set of approved phrases. The unique style of drawings inspired by the messages on these postcards also show the circumstances  in which they were written and received.

Nothing to be Written

Lysander Ashton, Anna Meredith

United Kingdom / 2018 / 6 min.

section: Virtual Reality

This work is inspired by the last kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird whose species became extinct in 1987. To create this animated world, the author programmed images of real animals and plants to colonize an island and create a unique ecosystem to which end he used simulation models predicting the future climatic scenarios. The plants, moss and insects react to the pulse of real-time generated music and the breathing and the voices of the audience influence the virtual atmosphere. The result is a unique VR experience for every user.

Re-animated

Jakob Kudsk Steensen, Jakob Steensen

United States, Denmark / 2018 / 15 min.

section: Virtual Reality

Czech Premiere

A dystopian interactive look at free will, set in a time when democracy has been replaced by the omnipotent rule of the Institute for Method, which engages in regular inspections of people’s thoughts and whose totalitarian rule is opposed by the underground group known as Rhizomat, which seeks alternatives to this dictatorial social order.

Rhizomat VR

Mona el Gammal

Germany / 2017 / 12 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A documentary essay on the social function of a room as a social construct which assigns a function and a set of rules of use to an enclosed space. The five intimate chamber settings show various archetypal uses of rooms to satisfy human needs and cultural roles.

Rooms

Christian Zipfel

Germany / 2019 / 23 min.

section: Virtual Reality

An interactive experience that builds a poetic space with abstract beings, where it then explore the concepts of safety and home. Viewers follow a metaphorical dream path whose pitfalls and obstacles help them to analyze questions and decisions related to closeness, loss, and togetherness.

The Key

Celine Tricart

United States / 2019 / 15 min.

section: Virtual Reality

An insight into the creative thinking about constructing a building in harmony with its surroudning landscape through an explanation and the visualization of the thinking process of a prominent architect in Icefjord, Greenland and Wadden, Denmark becomes an essay on the fusion of appearance, function and sustainability.

The Leap - Inside Architect Dorte Mandrup's Mind

Ane Skak, Niels Bjørn

Denmark / 2019 / 20 min.

section: Virtual Reality

Czech Premiere

Norwegian painter Edvard Munch created three versions of The Scream, one of the most important Expressionist paintings, between 1893 and 1910. Here it’s the starting point for a suggestive spatial and interactive examination of darkness, inspirations, and interpretations of this embodiment of internal and external terror.

The Scream

charles ayats, Sandra PAUGAM

France / 2019 / 15 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A visually unique presentation of woodcuts by Swiss artist Félix Vallotton. The woman portrayed in his works reflects on the way the scenes from a story of love and betrayal are depicted. This work is an essay on intimacy and its portrayal.

Unframed – The Intimacies

Félix Vallotton

2018 / 6 min.

section: Virtual Reality