Projects
Projects
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
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
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
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
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
Gnomes!
Category: Proof of Concept
Directed by: Ruwan Suresh Heggelman
Produced by: Richard Raaphorst (The Mad Scientists Movement), Monique van Kessel (Make Way Film)
Country of production: The Netherlands
Genre: Horror
Language: Dutch
When a talented arrogant mountainbiker enters an off limits forest section, she inadvertently becomes the key piece in a secret battle between humanity and gnomanity, and the only person to rescue us from complete annihilation.
A Guide To Living For The Dead
Category: Buyers Showcase
Directed by: Baris Fert
Produced by: Ipek Erden (Vayka Film), Emre Pekçakir
Country of production: Turkey
Original title: Ölüler Için Yasam Kilavuzu
Genre: Action, Dark Comedy, Thriller
Language: Turkish
Deniz, a crime machine who lost her feelings and ability to empathize years ago, chases after a mysterious software that is supposed to be in Istanbul and finds herself in a chaotic, one night only adventure.
Guest Star
Category: Thessaloniki Goes to Cannes
Directed by: Vasilis Christofilakis
Produced by: Vasilis Christofilakis, Teta Apostolaki + Atmosphere People, Greek Film Center, ERT
Country of production: Greece
Original title: Guest Star
Genre: Feature film
Language: Greek
Runtime: 120min
Completed in: 2022
Loukianos is the son of two famous Greek actors. Although he tries to live up to their fame, he is broke, living a tiny apartment and suffering from agoraphobia. His life is about to change when he is offered to be the host of a successful late-night talk show.
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…
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.