Virtual Reality

The Ji.hlava IDFF gives viewers the chance to enter into the selection of 360° documentary films and works on the boundary between film and art that make use of virtual spaces to create autonomous worlds whose own rules are determined by visuality. We are interested in works that take advantage of the characteristics of virtuality in an innovative and contemplative manner, that experiment with the audiovisual representation of reality and real stories, or that build an entertaining and instructive world of knowledge and learning.

VR ZONE can be found on the Masaryk Square in Jihlava.

ENTRY: 60 CZK accredited guests / 120 CZK without accreditation

360° VR documentary films

Block I.
Schrödinger’s cat is lost in a VR box
REEDUCATED

Block II.
Hominidae
1ST STEP - FROM EARTH TO THE MOON

Block III.
CONFI'DANSE
MEET MORTAZA VR

Block IV.
Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in Virtual Reality
JIOU JIA (HOME)

Reservations for screenings of 360° VR documentary films can be made in the festival's mobile application always from 18:00 on the day preceding the screening. See more here.

VR Experience installation

NIGHTSSS
Virtual Cuddle Therapy
Once Upon a Sea
The Book of Distance

Reservations for the VR Experience Installation are only possible at the venue (VR zone, Masaryk Square).

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The thrilling adventure of the mission to the Moon, told from the crewmembers’ point of view while on the Apollo space shuttle, culminates in a visual voyage of discovery exploring the topography of the lunar landscape.

1ST STEP - FROM EARTH TO THE MOON

Jörg Courtial, Maria Courtial

Germany / 2019 / 14 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A surprising look at Mali, an African country with a dramatic political destiny, offering insight into the experiences of three fantastic choreographers who express themselves through dance, voice, and precisely calculated glances.

CONFI'DANSE

NICOLAS JALU

France / 2020 / 15 min.

section: Virtual Reality

The portrait of the home is not only a reflection on the harmony of Ethiopian and American culture, but also on the construction of identities based on fragments of cultural and oral history and examples of stereotypical narratives that might arise from historical retellings.

Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in Virtual Reality

Ainslee Alem Robson

United States, Ethiopia / 2020 / 8 min.

section: Virtual Reality

This story of beings with the physiology of both human and spider plays out in a duel with a predator where the lives of their offspring are at stake. But above all, this is an opportunity to witness and explore the visual composition of anatomy through whole-body X-ray images.

Hominidae

Brian Andrews

United States / 2020 / 7 min.

section: Virtual Reality

JIOU JIA (HOME)

Hsu Chih Yen

Taiwan / 2020 / 18 min.

section: Virtual Reality

An existential, dramatic escape from Afghanistan where religious authorities have sentenced Mortaza, 24, to death. A secret trek to France doubles as a plunge into Mortaza's inner self and his struggle for personal freedom.

MEET MORTAZA VR

Joséphine Derobe

France, Belgium / 2020 / 13 min.

section: Virtual Reality

Through a series of dance scenes, this physical poem fleshes out the motifs of the body in space and explores the possibilities of the erotic short stories genre. The film was made in collaboration with the film school in Łódź, Poland.

NIGHTSSS

Sandra Frydrysiak, Weronika Lewandowska

Poland / 2020 / 7 min.

section: Virtual Reality

The interactive installation is a riveting testimony to the ecological and geopolitical crisis, which it illustrates through the story of the Dead Sea. Centuries of human and political intervention have set up a shaky future for one of the greatest natural wonders on Earth. The consequences of human actions are mirrored in crumbling banks, sinking soil, dramatically falling water levels.

ONCE UPON A SEA

Adi Lavy

Israel, Canada / 2020 / 22 min.

section: Virtual Reality

An investigation into a Chinese “re-education” camp in Xinjiang Province. The memories of three men interned here after their arrest present the eradication of ethnic and religious minorities, the largest since the horrors of the Holocaust.

REEDUCATED

Sam Wolson, Ben Mauk, Nicholas Rubin, Matt Huynh

United States, Kazakhstan / 2021 / 20 min.

section: Virtual Reality

The consistent work from the founders of the kinema ikon art collective, who have been creating major works of Romanian experimental cinema since the 1970s, has also led to the creation of a virtual installation for several films, offering an overview of bold and stylistically innovative cinematic works that were sidelined by the official, totalitarian state-owned cinema.

Schrödinger’s cat is lost in a VR box

Florin Hornoiu, Demian Șandru, Ioan Plesh, Viorel Simulov, Ioan Galea, George Sabau, kinema ikon

Romania / 2019 / 5 min.

section: Virtual Reality

An emotional journey through the history of one family's migration that began in 1935 with Yonez Okita's journey from Japan to Canada, where a few years later war and rampant racism made him the enemy. Three generations later, Randall Okita sets about reconstructing what has been lost, sorting through memories and moments both dark and hopeful, and guiding the viewer through the installation's personal journey of loss and healing.

The Book of Distance

Randall Okita

Canada / 2020 / 25 min.

section: Virtual Reality

The installation, with its elaborate scenic elements, creates an opportunity for viewers to stop and take a step back from their daily routine. Using virtual vision, participants focus on their own breathing, slowing themselves down. Gentle attention to one's body is essential to the ability to remain in the present and experience one's own immediate sensations.

VIRTUAL CUDDLE THERAPY

Karolína Schön, Klára Kacířová, Alena Kolesníková, Ester Grohová

Czech Republic / 2021 / 15 min.

section: Virtual Reality

This exploratory educational app offers a virtual reconstruction of China's architectural and cultural realities from the Ming Dynasty. The interactive installation allows users to take walking tours, and offers playful access to individual artefacts, enriched in places by surreal moments on a magical journey through the cultural heritage of this glorious period.

VR MIND EXPLORATION

Zuyun Deng

China / 2021 / 20 min.

section: Virtual Reality