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A Taste of Hunger
Space and time distorts as you follow Maggie who is married to Carsten. Together they share a common dream of a family and a Michelin-starred restaurant. But a taste of hunger is building in Maggie. A hunger that must be fed.
Immersive competition
150 minutes
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Put on a pair of VR goggles and let yourself be sucked into a portal to an animated reality.
This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2020-2021
Showing in this program
Ascension
Winner of the Kaboom Award for Best VR in 2021
Based on a search for balance between the heart and the head, Ascension offers an interesting perspective on VR and animation. How can we achieve this balance? Made by scenographer Paul Boereboom and theatre director Leon Rogissart, this VR is a space that tries to facilitate a safe haven for the inner mantra to resonate.
Dislocation
The VR experience Dislocation takes a look at an absurd moment of disbelief and fear. It examines the internal processes that develop and offers a visual depiction of a person forced into extreme circumstances – a moment of dislocation.
Dream Droplets
Take a deep breath and immerse yourself in the imaginary world of Dream Droplets, hidden to the conscious mind. Travel alongside adult Kim in this confronting dream-like fantasy, where grass grows as tall as trees and magical raindrops turn into bursting threads. Take the form of a water droplet, and drift along with the poetic current of her dreamy tale.
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Glad That I Came, Not Sorry to Depart
Iranian astrologer and scientist Omar Khayyam wrote 1000 four-line verses, more than 1000 years ago. In this animated VR experience artist Azam Mazoumzadeh creates a contemporary version of Omar Khayyam’s world, inspired by his poems and ancient Iranian miniature art. Khayyam’s age-old words are more recognizable than you think and show us a very different world view from Iran today.
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Minimum Mass
Love, loss, and black holes. Minimum Mass is the story of couple who experience a series of miscarriages and come to believe their children are being born in another dimension. Set in contemporary Rotorua, New Zealand and in the speculative world of black holes.
Recoding Entropia
A metallic tetrahedron floats through a milky abyss. All is calm – until this geometric form suddenly deconstructs, atomizing into billions of fragments. What was once a negative space is now dense with chaos. All that was rational and understood has come undone.
This is the beginning of a journey: one of creative destruction where everything solid melts into air, then condenses once more. It’s the hypnotic allegory of the eternal return, a spiritual journey where life and death are infinitely interchangeable.
Through purely abstract forms and movement, Recoding Entropia questions the spectator’s place in the universe, offering an immersive journey into the mysteries of extinction and rebirth.
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The Abandoned Deity
The social impact of gambling affected Taiwanese the greatest during the 80s in Taiwan.The concept of this film is to have audience experience and observe the social values of religion beliefs from a deity statue’s viewpoint through Virtual Reality technology.
The Hangman at Home
A beautiful immersive work about the awkward intimacy that comes with being human, and the connection between spectator, witness, and accomplice. This animated, interactive experience invites you into five interwoven stories, capturing pivotal moments in people's lives - like "What does the hangman think about when he goes home at night from work?". Inspired by the iconic Carl Sandburg poem (1922), this VR single-user immersive experience ultimately reveals that we are all more alike than different.
The West Flemish Pub Experience
Meet the West-Flemish pub goers in Café 't Hoekske, but don't stare too long at them, because they might get aggressive...
The West Flemish Pub Experience is an interactive VR experience that takes you to a cozy virtual pub like there is one on every corner of the West Flemish countryside. A virtual view into an animated world.
