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7 Lives

Jan Kounen

Tokyo. A teenage girl jumps in front of a subway train. Her soul rises from the tracks. On the platform, the witnesses to the scene are in a state of shock. It has awoken a traumatic memory in each of them. A painful memory, that plays out again and again. To end its wandering, the soul must pass into each of their minds, delve into their memories, and help them find peace.

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Duration 17 minutes
Directors Jan Kounen
Production Company Red Corner, France Télévisions, a_BAHN, Frakas Productions, Small Studio, Broohaha
Script Charles Ayats, Sabrina Calvo
Sound Franck Weber
Producers Marie Blondiaux, Adrien Oumhani

France, 2019

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Gravity VR

Fabio Rychter, Amir Admoni

The story of Gravity VR takes place in a surreal world with no ground, everything that exists is forever falling – and so is the player. In this world without walls, horizon, up and down orientation, there is no vertigo or fear. We are just floating peacefully in zero gravity. We also meet Osorio and Benedito, two old brothers drinking tea and living in a surprising normality. There’s no adrenaline in their lives, just a lonely and slow routine.

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Duration 15 minutes
Directors Fabio Rychter, Amir Admoni
Production Company Delirium XR
Technical Lead Owen Svelmoe
Narrator Peter Baker

Brazil, Peru 2019

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Living Pages

Maxime Coton

Imagine your body literally immersed in a book. The letters of the alphabet, the punctuation marks have escaped the limits of the page. They seem to have an autonomous life, forming clouds all around you. Reacting to your amazed gaze, the letters find their order to form a sentence. You turn around, abstract shapes float: we don’t know if they are images or objects. Above, lines of code scroll like rain curtains: you are immersed in Living Pages.

Living Pages is an original poem that is expressed at the same time as it is contemplated. It is a work of virtual reality based on unconscious interactivity. It is a new form that materializes, in real time, the mental images generated by the user and conveyed by words.

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Duration 11 minutes
Director Maxime Coton
Production Company BRUITS, Saoi Media, Transcultures
Script Maxime Coton, Paula Kehoe
Visual Design Jamil Medahoui
Sound Design Mathilde Lacroix
Voice Charlotte Allen
Mixing Rémi Gérard
Interactivity Demute Studio
With the support of la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, la SACD and of pILEN
Developed with support of the VR Creators’ Lab

Belgium, Ireland 2019

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Flow

Yao Wang

Flow is a first-of-its-style 360 experience that converts Chinese water painting into a beautiful 3D landscape. It tells the story of “The Peach Blossom Spring”, a famous fable written in 421 CE, of a lost fisherman who stumbles upon a tiny village sheltered from the world, where people live in harmony with their natural environment. Flow lets you look through the fisherman’s eyes as he drifts through the village on the river’s current, entering an oriental utopia. Flow is an important addition to VR in the realms of art styles, music syncing and visual storytelling.

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Duration 2 minutes
Director Yao Wang
Production Company ICTUS Audio
Producer Sherry Li
Artists Tao Chuan, Jessica Zhai
Music The GAIA Ensemble
Composition/Sound Design Yao Wang

Canada, 2020

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New World

Kerenza Harris, Alessio Grancini

New World invites us to join Astra and Yu as they journey through a world in chaos. We follow their emotional story as they grapple with a new reality. With this surrealistic 360° experience the artists Kerenza Harris and Alessio Grancini deal with the current threat of the Corona crisis.

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Duration 7 minutes
Directors Kerenza Harris, Alessio Grancini
Production Company Nightshade Production
Illustrations Corie Yaguchi

USA, 2020

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A Crescendo of Ecstasy

Mary Sibande

A Crescendo of Ecstasy combines familiar sculptural forms and figures with a Virtual Reality component that brings the work dramatically to life. Based on her use of alter-ego figures made in her own likeness, the piece creates an immersive environment for the viewer that can be accessed both physically and virtually, foregrounding the complex relationship between reality, fantasy and artistic imagination. The project extends Sibande’s preoccupation with these three elements and bridges her use of sculptural technology with the language of virtual reality.

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Duration 4 parts à 1.30 minutes
Director Mary Sibande

South Africa, 2018

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La Apparizione

Christian Lemmerz

Entering the virtual reality of La Apparizione, we encounter the Crucified One. A golden tortured body, released from the cross and floating in deep darkness, his wounds revealing flesh and blood behind the glistening metal surface of his skin. This must be how one pictures a sacral peepshow. Exposed to the viewer through the extreme visuality of the VR medium is a fusion between the suffering Savior and a bodybuilder bordering on vulgarity. In this space in between pathos and irony, between fake and real, Jesus Christ endures the bodily event of death – this death that we live.

La Apparizione, TRAUM and Locus Solus constitute the three parts of Christian Lemmerz’s VR trilogy. These works explore the medium of Virtual Reality, asking us to question the very nature of existence, the feeling of being there, our sense of self. At VRHAM!, La Apparizione is framed by fragments of TRAUM and Locus Solus.

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Duration 2 minutes
Director Christian Lemmerz
Dancer and Choreography Kitt Johnson

Denmark, 2017

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Quantum Tesseract – A Folding in Space and Time

Kris Pilcher

Most of us can’t expect to truly make sense of dimensions outside of our three-dimensional realm of experience. But Quantum Tesseract visualises the fourth dimension through sculptural projections of “HyperCubes” (fourth dimensional shapes) existing in a constant state of quantum unfolding. Here a viewer can find themselves in a place beyond three dimensional existence possible only through virtual reality.

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Duration variable
Director Kris Pilcher

USA, 2020

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Fragmente – ein digitaler Freischütz

A fragmentary approach to  Carl Maria von Weber’s opera and its thematic contents. The four 15-minute parts do not follow any chronology or linear narrative. They do not claim to tell the plot of the opera. It is focused on chosen highlights and creates new worlds for the visitors to discover themselves. One of the episodes, for example, contains an encounter with Kaspar or follows Ännchen through a labyrinth, or you visit Agath in a virtual forest and roam through a large Max mountain range.

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Concept & realisation: CyberRäuber
Composition & Sound design: Micha Kaplan
Dramaturg: Deborah Maier
Production manager: Eva-Karen Tittmann

Supported by the Fonds Doppelpass of the

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Smart Fence

Last year’s winner of the VRHAMMY Award, Dani Ploeger, returns to VRHAM! with his latest project. Last December, the artist traveled to the fortified border fencethat Hungary had raised along its southern border with Serbia to keep out migrants and asylum seekers. The barbed-wire is capable of delivering electric shocks and is equipped with heat sensors, cameras and loudspeakers that shout inhospitable messages in several languages. Once at the border fence, Ploeger cut off and ran away with a piece of razor wire from the border fence. This was a daring action: damaging the border fence is a criminal offence under Hungarian law. His SMART FENCE project uses old and new media, from celluloid film to augmented reality, to explore the way we delegate our responsibility towards asylum-seekers to these tech-enhanced structures. Along the way, the artist also attempts to deconstruct the techno-ideologies that are often inscribed in these technologies of control and exclusion.

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Director: Dani Ploeger

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