Virtual Reality 2

330 minutes
Virtual Reality 2

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 2019

Showing in this program

Chorus

Chorus

  • Tyler Hurd
  • United States, 2018
  • 7 min.

In this mutliplayer VR music video 3 friends are transformed into fantastical female warriors from different corners of the universe, banding together to battle evil with dance lasers in this epic 80's fantasy movie journey of empowerment, all orchestrated by the song Chorus by Justice.

Ghost in the Shell: Ghost Chaser

Ghost in the Shell: Ghost Chaser

  • Hiroaki Higashi
  • Japan, 2019
  • 7 min.

Background story: This story is set in the Kuzan Republic. The defense minister, who will take part in a meeting of the Next-generation Weapon Coordination Council, has ordered an advance onsite inspection. Ride participants are tasked with providing escort while securing an inspection route in Public Security Section 9, where Motoko Kusanagi serves as a leader. Visitors will enter cyberspace and, serving as a Public Security Section 9 agent, join in an attack on revolutionary movement forces.

Pitch Black

Pitch Black

  • Iris van der Meule
  • The Netherlands, 2019
  • 10 min.

Pitch Black is a digital monument that remembers the MH17 crash.

Relation • Ship

Relation • Ship

  • Zoey Lin / Kun Xia
  • United States, 2018
  • 7 min.

Initially the audience witnesses evocative gestural performance animation of the main character, “Fish Bone Queen,” giving away precious gifts from her own body. Upon entering the virtual reality environment, the viewer is immersed in a living bodyscape. This idea mirrors the perceived natural world and fluctuations in human relationships.

Wings

Wings

  • Dmitri Voloshin
  • Moldova, 2019
  • 7 min.

This story is about an astronaut who, as a child, dreamed of flying and being free. And now he seems to be flying in the sky, but he is actually locked in the capsule of a spacecraft. One day, minor problems lead to bigger problems, causing the spaceship to lose control and collapse on Earth. And now the astronaut will once again spread the wings of his dreams and return to childhood.