Past Events

Programme 2024

Flow is a turbulent day, driven by air.

Fragments of the life of a woman, a city and a hurricane, when all we can see is the air around us as the invisible becomes visible.

FLOW

Empereur

Empereur is an interactive, narrative experience in virtual reality, inviting us to travel to the heart of a brain: that of a father who has become aphasic.

In a monochrome rendering inspired by traditional animation, this intimate story is seen as a journey with surrealist overtones, exploring aphasia as a faraway land.

Goliath:
Playing with Reality

Through mind-bending animation, explore the limits of reality and a true story of mental health and the power of gaming.

Echo (narrated by Tilda Swinton) guides you through the many realities of Goliath, a man who spent years in isolating mental health institutions but finds connection in multiplayer games. Combining heart-felt dialogue, mesmerising visuals and symbolic interactions, weave through multiple worlds to uncover Goliath's poignant story.

360° animation / 2023
produced by Lucid Realities
& Valk Production

Duration:
15 minutes

Interactive VR / 2024
Produced by Atlas V
& France Television

Duration:
40 minutes

Venice Immersive 2023
Winner of the Achievement Award

The Hangman at Home

“What does the hangman think about when he goes home at night from work?”

Inspired by the 1922 Carl Sandburg poem of the same title, this VR single-user immersive experience explores themes of acknowledgement and participation. It is not about hanging people, but about the awkward intimacy that comes with being human, and the connection between spectator, witness, and accomplice. The animated, interactive experience invites you into five interwoven stories, capturing pivotal moments in people’s lives.

Interactive VR / 2022
produced by Floreal Films

Duration:
20 minutes

Venice Immersive 2021
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize

-22.7°C

Electronic music producer Molecule cuts himself off in a hunter village in Greenland. He recorded sounds of the Arctic there to compose music.

The -22.7°C experience offers a sensory and musical immersion into the Arctic circle, based on his adventure. The viewer/user experiences artistic creation in an extreme environment and discovers the Far North. He explores the sounds of this spectacular nature and becomes aware of its fragility. This hybrid project combines the best of immersive technologies, cinema creation and sound experimentation for a unique adventure.

Hawaiians suddenly confronted a real and urgent nuclear threat — one that we all currently face, but rarely acknowledge.

On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) is a virtual reality documentary that immerses the audience in the first-hand experience of citizens in Hawai’i to make clear the fundamental injustice of a world where nuclear weapons exist.

Premier — at Sundance 2022 Film Festival.

On the Morning You Wake
(To the End of the World)

Duration:
10 minutes

360° Video / 2019
produced by Zobra Production

Isle of the Dead

A timeless journey, based on Arnold Böcklin’s painting.

Isle of the Dead is a timeless journey, starting from an everyday apartment towards our final destination, guided by Charon, ferryman of the Underworld.

This VR experience is a loose recreation of the eponymous work painted in 1883 by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin.

The famous masterpiece also inspired a symphonic poem by Rachmaninov, which makes a perfect soundtrack to accompany the experience.

SXSW Film Festival
Jury Award Winner

Duration:
38 minutes

360° Animation / 2022
produced by Atlas V

Éternelle Notre-Dame

Éternelle Notre-Dame is a technological challenge that allows visitors to immerse themselves in the history of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and its treasures, from its construction in the Middle Ages to the current restoration work. It's a journey through time and space, giving visitors the chance to discover every aspect of this iconic monument through a genuine virtual reality experience in which they become real players in the monument's rebirth.

Notes on Blindness:
Into Darkness

360° Animation / 2018
produced by Les Produits Frais (Oriane Hurard), Arte France, 2018

Duration:
8 minutes

Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness is an immersive virtual reality project based on John Hull’s sensory and psychological experience of blindness.

In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, writer and theologian John Hull became totally blind.

To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began documenting his experiences on audio cassette. Over three years he recorded in excess of sixteen hours of material – a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating his interior world of blindness. These original diary recordings form the basis of this project, a six-part interactive documentary using new forms of storytelling, gamplay mechanics and virtual reality to explore his cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.

Each scene will address a memory, a moment and a specific location from John’s audio diary, using binaural audio and real time 3D animations to create a fully immersive experience.

Duration:
5 minutes

360° Animation / 2022
produced by Orange

Missing Pictures:
Naomi Kawase

XR Peabody Awards 2022
Peabody Legacy Interactive Winner

Duration:
20 minutes

Interactive VR / 2018
produced by ARTE

MISSING PICTURES is a VR documentary series that takes you behind the scenes of a film that never saw the light of day. Japan's best-known filmmaker revisits a project she considered after her 2015 film The Delights of Tokyo.

Oh Debu tells the story of Aya, a young woman who is overweight and very sentimental. With this story, Naomi Kawase admits she wanted to challenge herself by making a comedy with a tone far removed from the poetic naturalism of the rest of her work.

Duration:
15 minutes

360° Animation / 2022
produced by Atlas V

Venice Immersive 2023
Winner of the Jury Special Prize

Emmy Award 2022
Outstanding Interactive Media Innovation category

Interactive VR / 2021
produced by Floreal Films

Duration:
25 minutes

Venice Immersive 2020
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize

Cannes Film Festival 2021
Best XR work

Planet ∞

In a world in ruins, only fungi and mold grow in the middle of gigantic dried insects bodies. When a weather change occurs, rain irrigates the arid planet and floods it gradually. In the water springs an ecosystem, populated by giant carnivorous tadpoles.

360° Animation / 2017
produced by Barberousse Films, Arte France

Duration:
6 minutes