LA GRANDE-PLACE DU COMPLEXE DESJARDINS150, RUE SAINTE-CATHERINE OUEST5 - 14 OCT | MIDI - 20H00
- IN COMPETITION -Be transported into the middle of an animated world where a teenage Puerto Rican girl, Lupe (voiced by Rosario Dawson), is discovering herself at the dawn of New York City's punk scene in the late 1970s.
Virtual Reality
UNITED STATES, France | 9 minutes | 2018
- IN COMPETITION -Peer into the private lives of eight New Yorkers from your fire escape to discover suspicion and deception. Set against a shadowy backdrop of contemporary gentrification where disenfranchised tenants become twisted in a string of dark mysteries and a murder.
UNITED STATES | 20 minutes | 2018
- IN COMPETITION -Make Noise is a unique virtual reality experience which uses the power of your voice to smash through the barriers the suffragettes faced during their right to win the vote for women.
GREAT BRITAIN | 9 minutes | 2018
- IN COMPETITION -An absurdist mind-and-body romp through the highest clouds to the ocean deep, Museum of Symmetry is the explosive feel-good alter-universe of cartoonist and animator Paloma Dawkins—a room-scale VR experience with 2D animation in a 3D playground.
CANADA | 20 minutes | 2018
- IN COMPETITION -Kobold blurs the line between cinema and VR gaming. Immerse yourself in true, cinematic realism, explore a fully interactive universe entirely scanned with photogrammetry from real locations. Pick up clues, solve a mystery and come face to face with an ancient evil.
GERMANY | 30 minutes | 2018
- IN COMPETITION -Comprised of photographs and virtual reality volumetric testimonials, Made This Way: Redefining Masculinity is an interactive mixed-media documentary series that explores how transgender subjects are challenging gender norms and redefining the traditional notions of masculinity.
CANADA, United States | 18 minutes | 2018
- IN COMPETITION -The Guardian’s latest VR experience, Songbird, is an animated fairy tale with a dark heart. You will be transported to the island of Kauai, Hawaii, in 1984 and into a painted replica of a lush cloud forest filled with colourful birds.
UNITED KINGDOM, Denmark | 10 minutes | 2018
- IN COMPETITION -"Deluge" unfolds into a hallucinatory doomsday scenario, featuring a tidal wave, tormented bodies, and post-human landscapes. The virtual reality experience incorporates busts from the artist’s New Age Demanded sculpture series.
CANADA | 8 minutes | 2018
- IN COMPETITION -Entering the virtual reality of Lemmerz’ La Apparizione, one encounters 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.
DENMARK | 3 minutes | 2017
- IN COMPETITION -Isle of the Dead is a loose adaptation of the 1883 best-known painting of the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin. Directly inspired from the painting, Rachmaninov’s symphonic poem accompanies the experience.
FRANCE | 9 minutes | 2018
- IN COMPETITION -Ashes to Ashes is a surreal tragicomedy filmed in one-shot from the perspective of an urn containing ashes. Viewers encounter the colorful family members burdened with the bizarre final wish of their deceased grandfather.
NETHERLANDS | 11 minutes | 2016
- IN COMPETITION -Based on a true story, Bloodless explores the murder of a Korean sex worker by a US soldier in 1992. Bloodless was shot on location at Dongducheon camp town near Seoul, where the US military has been stationed since the 1950s.
SOUTH KOREA | 12 minutes | 2017
- IN COMPETITION -A VR short following a confusing encounter on the Israeli-Egyptian border. Based on true events.
ISRAEL | 10 minutes | 2018
Dinner Party is a short virtual reality thriller that dramatizes the incredible story of Betty and Barney Hill, who in the 1960s reported the first nationally known UFO abduction case in the United States.
UNITED STATES | 13 minutes | 2018
The directors recreated the interior and the view of a room on the roof of a department store in the center of Amsterdam. Drawing Room deals with the question: can being somewhere, an experience, be a work of art in itself?
NETHERLANDS | 7 minutes | 2015
- IN STUDENT COMPETITION -Discover the abyss of a virtual world with Séni, your guide. You will dive in the skin of anadventurer and live an exploration. Go beyond reality thanks to rich sensorial universes.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 20 minutes | 2018
- IN STUDENT COMPETITION -As contemporary medias continually broadcast an unattainable model of virtual beauty that puts the individual in conflict with his body, Hypermodèles presents a critical view of this virtual beauty's ideal through an exhibition in virtual reality.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 5 minutes | 2018
A journey in a 3D space reflecting visionary writer Arthur C. Clarke's futuristic predictions. His features quickly dematerialize into a multitude of shimmering pixels, creating an enveloping and immersive space out of which the thoughts of the famed author of 2001: A Space Odyssey emerge.
FRANCE | 5 minutes | 2017
This experience places the viewer inside the miniature world of Wes Anderson's stop motion animation film, face to face with the cast of dogs as they are interviewed on set, while the crew of the film works around you to create the animation.
GREAT BRITAIN, United States, Canada | 5 minutes | 2018
It has been three years since the catastrophic events at the Jurassic World theme park. The threat of a natural disaster erupting looms eerily over the island. Follow Blue, a highly intelligent Velociraptor, on her quest for survival.
The viewer slips into the role of an altruistic grandmother who needs to convince her grandson and his family to abandon their home and escape the war, despite the realization that they might not make it if she accompanies them…
AUSTRIA | 4 minutes | 2017
- IN COMPETITION -Ever since sedentism, mankind has been creating closed and strictly regulated rooms. They facilitate the satisfaction of human drives and therefore provide a basis for our culture.
GERMANY | 24 minutes | 2018
Witness firsthand the lives of veteran and novice NASA astronauts alike as they navigate the trials and sacrifices of their training and missions. Narrated by Brie Larson.
- IN STUDENT COMPETITION -Exploration of diverse virtuality reality scene, based on the graphic developpement of a child.
QUéBEC/CANADA | 10 minutes | 2018
- IN COMPETITION -Trapped in an active war-zone, two parents struggle to distract their young daughter by inventing a fantastical tale. Inspired by real events, this immersive virtual-reality experience transports the viewer into the family's makeshift basement shelter. The parents' fairytale intensifies as bomb-blasts draw closer and closer.
UNITED STATES | 10 minutes | 2017
All around Shanghai, thousands of people have chosen to live or work in stunning copies of Paris, Venice, and London. This VR documentary film invites viewers into a parallel world where famous touristic landmarks have been turned into vast neighborhoods.
FRANCE | 16 minutes | 2018
- IN COMPETITION -Mr. Chang arrives to his “Spiritual Temple,” a place that represents one’s destiny. To solve his marital crisis and financial problems, he summons his guardian - The Thunder God. They attempt to tidy his life, which turns out to be a big mistake.
TAIWAN | 10 minutes | 2017
- IN COMPETITION -Based on the documentary Zero Days, this immersive documentary visualizes the story of Stuxnet in a new way: placing you inside the invisible world of computer viruses, experiencing the high stakes of cyber warfare at a human scale.
UNITED STATES | 21 minutes | 2017
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