The story of one Jester

fiction, 6 min, dir. Aleksey Bystritsky, Russia, 2016

VR short film about the unknown facts of the last minutes of life of the most famous Jester in world history.

Film was made in 2016 as a part of unique collaborative Laboratory as a part of EMC VR Film Festival — the first VR film event in Russia. DELL EMC, Moscow Film School, AVRA (Augmented and Virtual Reality Associated) leaded by the author of this blog and programming director of the EMC VR Film Festival Georgy Molodtsov organised 3 week long educational workshop, where students of filmmaking were able to learn about 360 production as well as to pitch and get some financing and mentoring support from leading 360 production companies and produce their own 360 short film.

The results was 6 short works and “The Story of One Jester” (produced by Aleksey Likhnitsky, student of the producer course of the Moscow Film School) received the main jury prize among the other works. Later on the film was screened at Screen4All Festival, 360 BCN Movistar Festival, was included in “Russian VR Seasons” Initiative at the NEXT section of the Marche du Film at 70th Cannes Film Festival and “Russian VR Seasons” program at the 39th Moscow International Film Festival.

Film:

For those who interested and who knows Russian – you can watch the making of the film:

You can find more about the film and Russian VR Seasons initiative here: www.russianvrseasons.ru