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The Hangman at Home

Michelle & Uri Kranot

An animated VR experience exploring themes surrounding acknowledgement and the awkward intimacy of humanness, The Hangman at Home is constructed through five interwoven stories. Each situation presents a person, or persons, in a delicate moment: fragile, playful, terrified, contemplated, confused, curious… We can all be alike in these moments – prompting us to question our responses and responsibilities. The project is based on Carl Sandburg’s poem ‘The Hangman at Home’, from his acclaimed 1922 collection ‘Smoke & Steel’.

   
The Canadian projects are part of the culture program related to Canada’s Guest of Honour presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2021 and are supported by the Canada Council for the Arts,  the Government of Canada (Embassy of Canada to Germany) and the Québec Government Office in Berlin.

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Running time 25 minutes
Lead Artist / Director Michelle & Uri Kranot
Producers Lana Tankosa Nikolic, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal, Pierre Baussaron, Katayoun Dibamehr, Avi Amar, Marc Bertrand, Julie Roy
Narration Michelle Kranot
Technical DirectorMorten Andersen
Animation Philip Piaget, Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot, Juliette Viger, Mohammad Babakouhiashrafi, Fabien Corre, Morten Andersen
Production Companies LateLoveProduction, FloeralFilms, MiyuProductions, The National Film Board of Canada

Denmark, France, Canada, 2020

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The Forest inhales you

VR The Forest Collective

»Slowly I followed the sounds of breathing that I could perceive in the distance. Carefully listening to the frequency of each breath, it seemed as though I drew closer. So close, they escaped my own chest. When a tremor suddenly moved through me; virtually shook me. I wanted to hold on, yet my hand could not. And then they were back: sounds of breathing. Deep and immersive. All was gently led by an unfathomable flow. An ancient rhythm of arising and ceasing«

This installation represents the confluence of humanity and nature. It is conveyed through the dissolution of physical borders by an artwork whose guiding principle is to form connections. The viewer is invited to slow down and turn inward, the experience deeply affecting their sense of Self. The Forest Inhales You is a gentle reminder of our interconnection beyond the permanence of form.

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Running time 7 minutes
Creative Concept Inka Kendzia, Jason Stapleton, Noël Labridy
Director Inka Kendzia
Lidar scan, point cloud editing and VR dev  Jason Stapleton
Music Mr. Sakitumi

South Africa, 2019

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Paper Birds

German Heller, Federico Carlini

Paper Birds is a beautifully realized immersive animation about a short-sighted, musically gifted boy seeking his way through the world of darkness to bring back his sister, who was abducted by the great shadow. Using his musical skills to open portals to the mystical land of darkness, he’ll confront the great shadow so that it may reveal its purpose. This journey engages with our senses to explore the unknown that we’re often afraid to face. A story about inspiration, intuition and emotion, and the power of music in evoking these qualities.

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Running time 15 minutes
Lead Artists / Directors German Heller, Federico Carlini
Narration Archie Yates
Producers Federico Carlini, German Heller, Averie Timm
Executive Producers Yelena Rachitsky, Colum Slevin, German Heller, Federico Carlini, Jorge Tereso, Kane Lee
Art Direction Erica Villar
Head of Development Goyo Higa
Animation Director Andersson Rey
Lead Animator Paula Ramos
Music Cyrille Marchesseau

Argentina, 2020

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Heterotopia – Mirrors and Perspectives

Samuel Lepoil, Léon Denise, Dorian Rigal Minuit

In this VR exploration of imaginary places, participants take on the role of architects constructing a fantasy city, from the erection of the first building, through to its eventual ruin. The underlying idea is inspired by French philosopher Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, defined by the physical representation or an approximation of a utopia, or even a parallel, contradictory and transforming space – worlds inside worlds.

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Running time 10 minutes
Lead Artists / Directors Samuel Lepoil, Léon Denise, Dorian Rigal Minuit
Sound Designers  Antoine Wert, Alexandre Bobe
Actress Claire Saumande

France, 2020

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Aporia

Patricia Detmering

Aporia is a virtual world that generates and develops itself via algorithms. In doing so, it negotiates the sociological processes of open and closed societies. 60 human avatars, each equipped with its own AI, inhabit the world of Aporia. They can explore this environment, individually deciding on their actions. One element of the AIs acts within the limits of a stronger ordering principle, while the other moves without restrictions. When a ‘disruptive element’ appears in the form of a stranger, groups are formed and leaders appointed. The subsequent dynamic within the environment become the central theme of this work.

APORIA was awarded second place in the VR Art Prize of the DKB in 2021.

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Running time 16 minutes/endless
Lead Artist / Director  Patricia Detmering

Germany, 2020

 

         

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Sun Within

Vesela Stanoeva

A Mixed Reality installation, Sun Within explores the topic of paradise not so much as an actual destination but a state of consciousness. The protagonist embarks on a special mission through the fictional worlds of collective consciousness devised by the Pleiadian-Sirian-Arcturian Civilizations of Light, who are dedicated aiding humanity’s transition to a new Era of Peace, Harmony, Unity, Oneness, Prosperity, Love and Wellbeing.

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Running time 4 minutes
Lead Artist / Director, Storytelling, Modelling, Animation & Scenography Vesela Stanoeva
Sound design Christian Bröer
Animation supervision Lennart Oberscheidt
Narrator Linda Elsner
Setting and construction Sarah Haas

Germany, 2021

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Reeducated

Sam Wolson

Produced by “The New Yorker”, this VR documentary takes viewers inside one of Xinjiang’s ‘reeducation’ camps. Since 2016, authorities in the autonomous Chinese province have implemented one of the most advanced police states in the world. By 2018, as many as one million people were held in a vast network of ‘reeducation centers’. It is likely the largest mass-internment drive of ethnic and religious minorities since the Second World War. Using hours of first-hand testimony, combined with hand-drawn animation, the recollections of three former inmates imprisoned in the same facility guide us, reconstructing the experience of detention and political reeducation in an immersive three-dimensional space.

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Running time 20 minutes
Lead Artist / Director Sam Wolson
Development Sam Wolson, Ben Mauk
Artist Matt Huynh
Research & Reporting Ben Mauk
Executive Producer Soo-Jeong Kang, Monica Racic
Lead Animator & Technical Supervisor Nicholas Rubin
Producers Ben Mauk, Sam Wolson, Nicholas Rubin, Matt Huynh
Sound Design / Composer Jon Bernson
Assistant Animator Oliver Carr
Lead Compositor Noel Paul
VFX  Artist Eddy Moya
Animation Studio Dirt Empire

USA / Kasachstan, 2021

 

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Aska

Dominik Turan

A journey deep into the subconscious, Aska is an animated 360° short that unfolds in a colorful surreal world populated with the artist’s individual mythology. It is narrated in ten one-minute segments, each with its own story and meaning.

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Running time 10 minutes
Lead Artist /Director Dominik Turan

Slovakia, 2021

 

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