Virtual Reality 3

330 minutes
Virtual Reality 3

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

Another Dream

Another Dream

  • Tamara Shogaolu
  • The Netherlands / Egypt / United States, 2019
  • 20 min.

Another Dream, a hybrid animated documentary and VR game, brings the gripping, true love story of an Egyptian lesbian couple to life. Faced with a post-revolution backlash against the LGBTQ community, they escape Cairo to seek asylum and acceptance in the Netherlands. An accompanying installation allows audiences to reflect on what they have seen, heard, and felt in VR.

Black Bag

Black Bag

  • Qing Shao
  • China, 2019
  • 12 min.

This is the story of a black leather bag.
Ex-military security guard, Mr. S, works for a bank. He leads the life of a normal, peaceful, stable, and poor working-class man, one who fantasizes about a major heist. As the plan solidifies, Mr. S starts to struggle with his own morality, resulting in torturous nightmares.
Fantasy became reality as the opportunity finally arrives. A mysterious black leather bag is deposited into the bank vault by a VIP.
Other than a police patrol, the escape went smoothly. Mr. S was successful in robbing the black leather bag through the help of his veteran friends, whom he murdered in the process in order to keep it for himself.
As he enters the tunnel, the real world starts to peel away from him. Mr. S stepped out of a strange elevator and arrived at hell, where all his past sins played on television screens.

Gloomy Eyes 1+2

Gloomy Eyes 1+2

  • Fernando Maldonado / Jorge Tereso
  • France / Argentina, 2019
  • 17 min.

When the sun got tired of the humans it decided to hide and never rise again.
The darkness awoke the dead from their graves. A zombie kid called Gloomy and a mortal girl called Nena fall in love and immerse in a deep connection that not even the most powerful man in town can destroy.
Gloomy Eyes is an animated VR-series in 6DoF & 3D real time releasing in 3 chapters.

In The Sky

In The Sky

  • Martin Živocký
  • Czech Republic, 2018
  • 3 min.

Trip through space where planets fall in love.

Mindpalace

Mindpalace

  • Dominik Stockhausen / Carl Krause
  • Germany, 2018
  • 10 min.

In a last desperate attempt to communicate, a man decides to lock his boyfriend inside his mind. A raging stream of consciousness unfolds, shedding light on a flawed relationship.

Songbird

Songbird

  • Lucy Greenwell / Michelle Kranot
  • Denmark / United Kingdom, 2018
  • 10 min.

Songbird: A virtual moment of extinction. A commission and collaboration with The Guardian Virtual Reality team, Songbird is a fairytale with a dark heart. You will be transported to the island of Kauai in 1984 and into a painted replica of a lush cloud forest filled with colourful birds. Here, you are invited to search for the last known ʻōʻō, an iconic black bird with yellow leg feathers and a b