CPH DOX: Inter:active & VR:Cinema

This year CPH:DOX moved to spring and this is not the only new thing at one of the most prestigious documentary film festival in Europe and in the world. Of course, CPH:DOX pays attention to VR Cinema and now we have a great VR program there in Denmark within the festival.

AS festival says:

At this year’s CPH:DOX we have built an interactive exhibition and Denmark’s first ever pop-up Virtual Reality cinema at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. Here you can experience five interactive works and three Virtual Reality (VR) programmes that explore the potential of VR from different thematic angles: VR:ART, VR:IMPACT and VR:SCIENCE.

Curated by Mark Atkin and Tom Millen, Crossover Labs (UK).

VR:Cinema is a collaboration between CPH:DOX, Samsung, World of VR / Showtime VR and AiAiAi.

Showtime VR is a well established brand to show films simultaneously at the film festivals with VR segments like Cannes, Dubai and other festivals. So, that means that the film experience for the audience would be smooth and satisfying.

So, here is the selection for those sections:

VR.ART

Afripedia — Dance Battle 360°

The world’s first 360° VR Video Dance Battle, showcasing the best urban street dancers from Dakar, Senegal. An interactive online experience where the audiences are able to immerse themselves in the movement, the music and the city itself.
Directed by: Marie Skovgaard, Senay Berhe. Producer: Teddy Goitom.
Denmark / 2017 / 4,40 min.

Kinoscope — A VR Journey Into the World of Cinema

‘Kinoscope’ immerses you into the history of cinema led by the voice of the Hollywood legend Dean Tavoularis, motion picture production designer whose work has appeared in numerous hits such as ‘The Godfather’ films and ‘Apocalypse Now’.
Created by: Within. Directed by: Philippe A. Collin & Clément Léotard. Produced by: Ex Nihilo and Novelab by AudioGaming.
France / 2017 / 9,30 min

Rhizhomat
RHIZOMAT VR leads the visitor into a dystopian future where you attend a standard examination at the IFM company. But this time the examination doesn’t work like it should…
Created by: ARTE/Berline Festspiele. Concept, scenography & direction: Mona el Gammal. Co-production of Immersion. Berliner Festspiele, ZDF/ARTE & INVR.SPACE.
Germany / 2017 / 10 min.

Longing for Wilderness
‘Longing for Wilderness’ takes you from the noisy city trough the slowly transforming forest to a wild and airy landscape. It seeks to express our desire to turn off everyday turbulences and experience nature in its rawest form — an opportunity getting increasingly rare these days.
Created by: Marc Zimmerman.
2016 / 3,12 min.

Roskilde Festival
Roskilde Festival is one of the world’s largest and most legendary music festivals. Although the festival itself runs but for four days, tens of thousands of young people are camping and partying for a full week before the first concert. This new VR piece takes you to the heart of it all. Backstage and on stage with the Danish singer Bisse, at one of the spontaneous parties in the camping area, and all the way in to one of the thousands of tents where a young couple in unicorn masks are making out in the dark. On all accounts, it’s like being there yourself — except for the smell! The film is the result of a collaborative effort between some of the country’s most talented documentary filmmakers who united in exploring the possibilities of VR.
Please note that the style of the film can cause dizziness.
Created by: Frank Piasecki Poulsen, Camilla Nielsson, Andreas Koefoed, Daniel Dencik, Lars Borking, Mikkel Keldorf, Jonas Winther Kvist, Morthe Højbjerg, Simon Lajboschitz. Music: Hello Psykaleppo, Bisse.
Denmark / 2017 / 10 min.

VR:IMPACT

We Who Remain
A virtual reality film takes you into the heart of a forgotten conflict in Sudan during a brutal fighting season. This VR film weaves together the stories of four people making their way in an endless conflict in the Nuba Mountains. Their lives have been marked by war and trauma at the hands of Sudan’s government. Yet they all show remarkable resilience.
Created by Trevor Snapp for Nuba Reports. Produced by Emblematic Group, for The New York Times magazine, AJ+ and ARTE.
2017 / 12 min.

Notes to My Father
‘Notes To My Father’ is a story of love, grief, and reconciliation, between father and daughter. Flooded by memories of life in an Indian brothel, Ramadevi pens a letter to her father, who unintentionally played a role in his daughter’s trauma. Despite being close now; they have never spoken about what happened to her. Through Ramadevi’s touching letter, she reaches out to her father so that they can talk about the unspoken between them. Of their pasts, their pain and her hope that her own young daughter is saved from having a similar fate.
Directed by Jayisha Patel. Executive Producers Lauren Burmaster, Gabo Arora.
2017 / 11,22 min.

Bashir’s Dream
From the award-winning RYOT team comes the story of Qusai Bashir Masaama, a 14-year-old Syrian refugee living in Jordan who was shot in the back by a sniper while on a candy run. As a result, Qusai became a paraplegic. He is confined to a wheelchair, but dreams of playing basketball and traveling abroad for better care and education. Filmed entirely in Jordan, this film juxtaposes live action documentary filmmaking and animation as it explores a childlike attitude to a war-torn reality.
Directed by Angel Manuel Soto. Produced by RYOT Films.
2017 / 4,45 min.

Inside Auschwitz
The WDR presents the first ever global Virtual Documentary in Auschwitz-Birkenau. More than 70 years have passed since the liberation of Auschwitz, a synonym for the Holocaust, for Nazi atrocities and for mass murder. With the aid of VR technology, the personal experiences of three Holocaust survivors can be directly linked to the huge dimensions of Auschwitz.
Created by Maik Bialk, Dorothe Pitz for Hier und Heute, WDR.
Germany / 2017 / 9,40 min.

VR:SCIENCE

Life to Come 360°
Do you remember when your life started? Either way, you now have the chance to (re)experience what it was like when your senses and your consciousness slowly began to come together to shape a complete impression of the world around you — even if the world at that time still was very small. Through a 360-degree video rendering, ‘Life to Come’ takes us back to the beginning of the world — or at least to our own beginning in the world.
Created by: Seppia. Creators: Fouzi Louahem, Claudio Capanna. Co-produced by Seppia Interactive, Stenola Productions, ARTE GEIE, RTBF Interactive & AL-Jazeera.
France / 2017 / 12,40 min.

X2066 /scienceFUTURE
X2066 VR experience is a series of 3D interactive environments that feature stories improvised by scientists imagining the life of X. Fly over Tromsø, Manndalen, and Svalbard as X listens to a transmission of dreams and wild speculation about her life, sent from 2016. These stories were collected from 100 scientists in North Norway and Svalbard.
Created by: Imrge/Ice-9. Creators: Christie Cynn and Phil Harper. Music by: Leverton Fox & Icarus.
UK / 2017 / 9 min.

Collisions
A journey to the land of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the Western Australian desert, that explores the collision between science and spirit. Lynette Wallworth is an acclaimed Australian artist and director whose immersive installations and films reflect connections between people and the natural world. Nyarri Nyarri Morgan is a senior Martu elder, leader and artist whose works have been exhibited in Australia, Europe, and the United States. m.
Director: Lynette Wallworth. Producer: Nicole Newnham. Featured Artist: Nyarri Morgan.
Australia / 2016 / 15 min.

Fossil Hunting In the Gobi 360°
Set out across the sands of Asia’s largest desert with legendary explorer Roy Chapman Andrews. ‘Fossil Hunting In the Gobi’ transports viewers back to the 1920s, recreating the American Museum of Natural History’s historic Mongolian expeditions through the unique use of archival material. Back in New York City, a glimpse inside the Museum’s 21st-century collections reveals that iconic fossils discovered by Andrews’s team still inform paleontologists’ research today.
Creators: Erin Chapman and Jason Drakeford. Producer: Erin Chapman. For American Museum of Natural History.
USA / 2017 / 3,45 min.

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Also, there is a part of interactive and mixed reality installations:
Nothing Happens (Trial Run)
WHIST
Priya’s Mirror
Inside Saydnaya

You can find more about the installations and the program here — https://cphdox.dk/en/more-than-films/interactive-vrcinema