CPH:DOX 2018 VR Line Up
CPH:DOX is one of the most prestigious documentary film festivals in the world. Last year CPH:DOX introduced a selection of VR works to their INTER:ACTIVE program.
CPH:DOX was founded in 2003. Supported by film professionals as well as the national press, CPH:DOX grew from 14,000 admissions in its first year to a record-breaking total of 97,500 admissions in 2017.
Link to the VR program on the festival web site: https://cphdox.dk/en/programme/categories-themes/?ser=87
Following last years big success, the exhibition INTER:ACTIVE will once again take place at Kunsthal Charlottenborg at CPH:DOX. The exhibition will include some of the best interactive and immersive installations and VR films out there.
The exhibition will run through the whole festival March 15–25 2018. INTER:ACTIVE is curated with CopenX, and presented in collaboration with B&O, Samsung, Khora VR, Khora Contemporary, World of VR, Showtime VR and Plant København. With support from the Danish Arts Foundation and the Lundbeck Foundation.
Program of the festival for 2018 edition:
TripinReality
Sara Lisa Vogl, Ruud op den Kelder, animation, Netherlands, Germany | 12 min
TripinReality is about ones journey through states of consciousness. The protagonist of the story is the user, who is able to experience meditative states translated to surroundings as the cycles progress.
Chasing Coral: The VR Experience
Jeff Orlowski, documentary, United States | 6 min
This adventurous underwater VR experience follows Zackery Rago, a passionate scuba diver and researcher, as he documented the unprecedented 2016 coral bleaching event at Lizard Island.
The Sun Ladies
Maria Bello, Celine Tricart, Christian Stephen, documentary, United States | 7 min
The women who escaped an ISIS invasion in 2014 started a female-only fighting unit called the Sun Ladies to bring back their sisters and protect the honor and dignity of their people.
Beyond The Wall
Mikkel Keldorf, Mikkel Christensen, documentary, Denmark | 7 min
Beyond the Wall is a virtual reality documentary that puts you in the shoes of migrants from one of the most dangerous regions in the world: The Northern Triangle in Central America.
My Drowning Island
Robert Fox, documentary, Denmark | 6 min
Join former president Anote Tong in a cinematic VR experience that showcases the low-lying nation Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean.
PLANET ∞
Momoko Seto, François Martin Saint Léon, animation, France | 7 min
In a world in ruins, only fungi and mold grow in the middle of gigantic dried insects bodies.
Wonderful You VR
John Durrant, United Kingdom | 18 min
Narrated by Academy Award nominee Samantha Morton, Wonderful You is a virtual reality journey through the strange world of your developing senses; sight, sound, touch, taste & smell.
The Blank Canvas — Hacking Nature
Boo Aguilar, animation, United States | 3 min
The most disruptive ideas of our time exist in the intersection of biotech and information tech.
Second Date
Jennifer Lyon Bell, Netherlands, United States | 17 min
Second Date is a lighthearted, unscripted Virtual Reality portrait of two young people fumbling towards ecstasy.
I Saw the Future
François Vautier, animation, France | 7 min
In a dark expanse that could be the cosmos, we hear the voice of Arthur C. Clarke, whose face taken from a BBC archive dating back to the 1960s appears in the distance.
Pylône
Baron Lanteigne, Canada | 2 min
An empty sphere upholstered by equirectangular projections attempting to simulate the real world.
Escape Route
Dirk Koy, Switzerland | 3 min
A 360° trip through photogrammed city pieces of Basel. A visual score to the music of Boris Blank (Yello).
The Giant
Mike Anderson, Ryan Dickie, Abigail Horton, United States | 4 min
We follow a girl’s strange journey as she grows endlessly, eventually dissolving into the music of the universe. In a 360-degree animated environment, the story is narrated in a single unbroken shot, taking the viewer on a thrilling experience unlike any other.
A E T H E R
Pussykrew | 4 min
A E T H E R is a short 360 meditative piece with soundscape. Witness the process of unification of the immaterial tissues with forces hidden in between the layers of the digitised environment.
The Pull
Quba Michalski, United States | 4 min
Gravity is no longer a constant. Enter a world where the rules that bind us are suddenly disobeyed. In a secret science facility, gravity has been conquered. “Down” is no longer a direction, but a choice. Step into the center of modified chambers and witness the laws of nature be broken in this five-experiment series.
Zen Parade
Quba Michalski, United States | 3 min
Zen Parade is a surreal journey through an endless sky filled with evolving abstract sculptures. The fluid motion of the sculptures and the sound healing music are designed to engage the imagination, inspire wonder, and enhance well being. The juxtaposition of abstraction and realism triggers pareidolia (Seeing things that aren’t there). This makes it unique for each person, each time they experience it.
Rainbow
Olafur Eliasson | 5 min
Olafur Eliasson’s virtual rainbow is as ephemeral — and as beautiful — as nature’s own elusive phenomenon.
Tree
Milica Zec, Winslow Turner Porter III, United States | 8 min
Widely praised as one of the most groundbreaking interactive works, the critically acclaimed and haptically enhanced virtual reality experience ‘Tree’ transforms you into a majestic rainforest tree. With your arms as branches and body as a trunk, you’ll experience the tree’s life from a seedling to its fullest form and witness its fate firsthand.
Witness J
Milo Rau, Daniel Wagner, Germany, Switzerland | 20 min
An animated, personal story from the war in Congo that extends from Milo Rau’s major film and multimedia project, ‘The Congo Tribunal’.
She’s Already Gone
Yu Hong, Khora Contemporary, animation, China, Denmark| 8 min
Hand-painted VR-piece about a woman’s life from birth to old age, while time itself moves backward to the most ancient history of China.
The Bridge
Nikita Shalenny, Khora Contemporary, Ukraine, Denmark | 7 min
In Shalennys VR work the viewer goes beyond the horizon on a compressed forty thousand kilometers journey around the world.
I U WE
Katrin Ólafsdóttir, Julie Bjørnskov, Max Morris Doherty, Georg Jagunov, Simon Lajboschitz, Denmark | 25 min
I U WE is a Virtual and Augmented Reality ritual that unites individuals through shared experience. A ritual is a sequence of actions involving gestures, words, sounds, and objects. Performed in a cultural context the ritual creates a shared metaphysical world.
Unrest VR
Jennifer Brea, Amaury La Burthe, United States | 20 min
When your bed becomes a prison, the freedom to dream becomes your only way out. The VR experience behind the Oscar nominated film.
