Immerse yourself in virtual reality and experience new possibilities for animated storytelling. You’ll have the chance to experience a variety of projects on the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Cardboards, ranging from a 360° story about a young girl’s frustration as she tries to dodge the rain to being right in the middle of a dream-like journey from one world to the next.

Try out different goggles and let yourself be transported to new worlds, where you can roam freely, interact with characters, and perhaps even change the course of events!

Look for our program The Art of Nexus for an in-depth presentation about storytelling in virtual reality.

This program screened as part of KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival 2016

Showing in this program

Buggy Night

• Mark Oftedal
• United States, 2015
• 3 min.

A nocturnal group of singing bugs is interrupted by a flashlight beam...and a very hungry frog. Featuring production design by Caldecott Award winning author and illustrator Jon Klassen!

Drawing Room

• Sara Kolster / Jan Rothuizen
• The Netherlands, 2015
• 7 min.

Drawing Room is the first fully handdrawn VR experience by visual artist Jan Rothuizen, known for The Soft Atlas of Amsterdam and his award winning interactive documentary Refugee Republic. For this project Rothuizen teamed up with interactive director Sara Kolster and new media collective Zesbaans. Together they recreated in clear lines the interior and the view of a room on the roof of a department store in the center of Amsterdam.

The department store invited Rothuizen to spend some time on the roof to create a work of art. Through the eyes and thoughts of the artist, we discover the room and the city below. Drawing Room playfully deals with the question Virtual Reality creates: can being somewhere, an experience, be a work of art in itself?

Invasion

• Eric Darnell
• United States, 2016
• 7 min.

From the Director of Madagascar comes an enchanting new VR experience: Invasion!
Immerse yourself in this tale of aliens trying to take over the planet. They're thwarted by the Earth’s meekest and most adorable creatures – 2 fluffy white bunnies - and you are one of them

Pearl

• Patrick Osborne
• United States, 2016
• 5 min.

Set inside their home, a beloved hatchback, Pearl follows a girl and her dad as they crisscross the country chasing their dreams. It’s a story about the gifts we hand down and their power to carry love. And finding grace in the unlikeliest of places.