Virtual Reality

VR cinema will screen 360° films, their tone ranging from popularscience to strictly poetic or lyric, which use a documentary approach, animation or actors to depict both current stories and topics and historical insights. You can immerse yourself into the depths of oceans and space, but also into a fl eeting space painted in watercolors or a spirited changing animation portraying the fi ght of the feminist movement at the beginning of the 20th century, hear both beautiful and thrilling stories from all corners of the world and fl y through fragments of cities, memories or culturally-distant rituals. The installations allow you to explore worlds which embrace the viewer›s movement and allow them to infl uence what they discover and perceive. VR zone is located on the ground floor of DKO and was supported by GO360 and Brainz.

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Thee Czech Radio project allows us to see what the young man has seen, when hindering the passage of Soviet tank with his own body. As well we can try position of the soldier who controlled the tank. The experience is based on a real photo of this moment. It is always going through two participants at a time, and their roles will be exchanged.

August 68

Czech Republic / 2018 / 10 min.

section: Virtual Reality

At the training center in Houston, astronauts are tested on how they will enter space. Together with a guide, a French astronaut, the viewer experiences training for a spacewalk, centrifuge simulations, and leaving the vehicle.

BEING AN ASTRONAUT, PART 1

Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff, Jürgen Hansen

Germany, France / 2018 / 15 min.

section: Virtual Reality

The first part of the Cultural Revolution trilogy deals with the events of 1912 in Russia. The painter’s works spills out of their frames and become part of events at the time. Through significant moments of cultural life during pre-Revolutionary Russia, significant historical moments are also shown. 

Between Petrov and Vodkin

Denis Semionov, Natalia Severina

Russia / 2017 / 3 min.

section: Virtual Reality

Documentary photographs were used to recreate the environment on the island of Gulangyu that was destroyed during Typhoon Meranti in 2016. The nature preserve with its ancient trees and post-colonial haciendas was transformed into a post-apocalyptic chaos.   The screening was supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

Beyond the Typhoon

Encor Studio

Switzerland / 2017 / 5 min.

section: Virtual Reality

This film shows the living conditions of hundreds of thousands of migrants when they made their escape from gangs, drug cartels, and criminality in Central America. A harsh account with concrete testimonies, such as a young woman in Honduras whose two daughters were kidnapped and murdered by a gang.

Beyond the Wall

Mikkel Cantzler, Mikkel Keldorf

Denmark / 2018 / 7 min.

section: Virtual Reality

This story traces the footsteps of a prostitute who was brutally murdered by an American solider in 1992. Filmed in the vicinity of the American military base where the crime took place, in Dongducheon Camptown in South Korea, it shows where she spend the last hours of her life. 

Bloodless

Gina Kim

United States, South Korea / 2017 / 12 min.

section: Virtual Reality

Based on actual events and memories, the viewer follows the considerations and dilemmas of a young Israeli soldier Abraham, a native Ethiopian Jew, guarding the border in the middle of the desert.

Borderline

Assaf Machnes

United Kingdom, Israel / 2018 / 9 min.

section: Virtual Reality

An anthropological narrative follows the life and work routines, architecture, rituals, and various aspects of social life in Bolivia. 

Deep Bolivia

José Celestino Campusano

Bolivia, Argentina / 2018 / 7 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A hybrid narrative approach tells the true story of Betty and Barney Hill, a mixed-race couple, who reported the first known case of abduction by a UFO in 1961. They recount the supernatural events during a dinner with friends, telling the story while under hypnosis. 

Dinner Party

Angel Manuel Soto

United States / 2017 / 13 min.

section: Virtual Reality

Through an immersion into the depths of the ocean and the protagonists’ narratives, who have for years engaged in the sensory reaction of humans in the slowly revealed depths, the viewer examines what happens to the human body and mind in this environment.

Dolphin Man

Benoît Lichté

France / 2017 / 4 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A timeless reflection on caring for the environment based on the depictions of approaches to restoring and managing land and natural resources, set 150 years in an post-apocalyptic future in which various ethnic groups in the state of New Mexico work together to care for their region as well as the social and cultural background of their community.

Each Branch Determined

Postcommodity

United States / 2017 / 6 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A metaphorical journey through the physical awareness of your own body and its environment. In a post-apocalyptic-looking world, anthropomorphic fragments and clusters of molecules move through the physical landscape in which structures can replicate, returning to the existential question of what of the "I" remains.    The installation was supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

HanaHana

Naëm Baron, Melodie Mousset

Switzerland / 2016

section: Virtual Reality

The story of a father who returns to his home in the Iraqi town of Fallujah, where all around are makeshift explosives. When his son dies tragically, it shows the home as a place where you are afraid.

Home After War

Gayatri Parameswaran, Felix Gaedtke

United States, Germany, Iraq / 2018 / 20 min.

section: Virtual Reality

Coral reefs are disappearing from the world at an unprecedented rate. An exploration of life under the surface of the ocean thanks to a team of scientists, cameramen, and divers is accompanied by the researchers’ narrative, documenting the heretofore unseen changes in the oceans, revealing their worlds and ways of life and extinction.

Chasing Coral

Jeff Orlowski

United States / 2017 / 6 min.

section: Virtual Reality

Ötzi the Iceman is the most famous mummy in the world - 5300 years old. A look at the Neolithic period and, using scientifically verified reconstructions, how Ötzi most likely lived and what difficulties he met with in his life. 

Iceman VR

Eric Benz, Jan Krueger

Germany / 2017 / 6 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A reconstruction of the tumultuous events of 1916, when Russia is torn by war, its economy in ruins, and countless soldiers die every day on the front. People yearning for peace, dissatisfied with the current authorities, start thinking about revolution. 

In the trenches of World War I

Eduard Chizhikov

Russia / 2017 / 2 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A breathtaking exploration of Baikal, the oldest and largest lake in the world, as well as of the Siberian landscape that surrounds it, its unrelenting nature and the everyday lives of the people who live on its shores. We’ll also see the work of scientists in the area, as well as the reactions of various religions to local environmental threats.

Lake Baikal: Winter Spirit

Georgy Molodtsov, Michael Owen

United States / 2016 / 8 min.

section: Virtual Reality

The fight for women’s suffrage is portrayed here through abstract animation, both literally and metaphorically emphasizing the power of voices. 

Make Noise

May Abdalla

United Kingdom / 2018 / 8 min.

section: Virtual Reality

This stroll among objects in space, from the planets of our solar system to galaxies beyond the Milky Way, was created with the cooperation of scientists and based on NASA data. It addresses questions such as “how big is our galaxy?” or “how far are we from the sun?”. 

Overview - Part 1

Paul Mezier, Amaury Solignac

France / 2017 / 5 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A spatio-temporal loop immerses viewers into a potential infinity. Echoes of Charles Baudelaire’s poem “The Abyss” urge viewers on an imaginatively rendered journey, but these are only traces of images in the depths of darkness.

Proxima

Mathieu Pradat

France / 2017 / 8 min.

section: Virtual Reality

Astronauts and researchers guide the viewer through the spaces where they exercise and work, leading to speculation about the reasons and context for their work, cooperation with space agencies, the latest plans and progress in the exploration of deep space, and questions about understanding our planet, galaxy, and universe. 

Space Explorers: A New Dawn

Paul Raphaël, Félix Lajeunesse

Canada / 2018 / 19 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A combination of various narrative techniques portrays the world as it might look in 2029, when Argos builds personalized realities using neural technologies, and nearly a third of Earth’s population is addicted to uploading and sharing their memories – somehow very similar to today’s reality. 

The Argos file

Josema Roig

United States / 2016 / 4 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A visual reconstruction of a 40,000 km run around the world, in which watercolors depict a system of bridges surrounded by the echoes of figures wandering through forest, oil fields, and oceans, through changing natural and industrial landscapes.

The Bridge

Nikita Shalenny

Denmark, Ukraine / 2017 / 9 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A hybrid documentary about climate change and polluting plastics and their effects on the oceans.  The viewer follows the water cycle in Venice, where the sea level is rising. It’s not just an exploration or an enlightening experience - the consumer must change the environment for the better in this world. 

The Great Ocean (Debris) - Venice

Michael Geidel

Germany / 2018 / 25 min.

section: Virtual Reality

World Premiere

A strong testimony about how Yazidis live and why they fight. Their unit came together after the Islamic State attacked a Yazidic settlement in Sinyar, massacred all the men, and abducted the women and children as sexual slaves. These brave women formed a combat unit called the Sun Ladies.

The Sun Ladies

Maria Bello, Christian Stephen, Celine Tricart

United States / 2017 / 7 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A celebration of Mexican culture based on the famous Cirque du Soleil show leads the viewer through Mayan ideas about life after life, a celebration of the Tarahumara people, spectacular wilderness and exuberantly imaginative images.

Through the Masks of Luzia

Paul Raphaël, Félix Lajeunesse, Francois Blouin

Canada, United States / 2017 / 14 min.

section: Virtual Reality

A stunning rendition of the situation - a person tied by disease to a bed, based on documentation of neurosensory responses to pain or fainting. The viewer goes through difficult-to-imagine situations while experiencing the freedom of floating in their own inner landscape. 

Unrest VR

Jennifer Brea, Amaury La Burthe

United Kingdom, France, United States / 2017 / 20 min.

section: Virtual Reality

An interactive video, created using 3D scans of streets and buildings, that constructs a hyper-realistic excursion through fragments of the Swiss city of Zürich, which the viewer sees from the perspective of freely floating in space while the city falls to pieces and builds itself up again in new impressive ways. The screening was supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.  

Zurich 2.0

Dirk Koy

Switzerland / 2015 / 3 min.

section: Virtual Reality