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We are part of the frameless media revolution. We believe VR, AR and XR will change human communications. These technologies can deeply affect our brains, our emotions, and our overall perception of the world and each other.
We build the future of human connections without borders or walls. We don’t see our products as limited to one market or another. We think and create, we live beyond any boundaries or frames.
We fight fears and we’re not afraid to do things differently. We’re not afraid to go against the stream. We choose Less, not More.
We build the future of human connections without borders or walls. We don’t see our products as limited to one market or another. We think and create, we live beyond any boundaries or frames.
We fight fears and we’re not afraid to do things differently. We’re not afraid to go against the stream. We choose Less, not More.
Cross-cultural VR initiative introduced by Less Media Group in partnership with the French Institute. VR Festival showcasing award-winning narrative VR projects in Tashkent, Almaty, Astana, Moscow and Saint Petersburg
The immersive format is gaining popularity worldwide, and this year, audiences in five cities across Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Russia will once again have the opportunity to see both the latest innovations in immersive cinema and iconic projects that have already become classics in virtual reality.
This year, the main theme of the festival is PERSPECTIVE. Changing perspective, altering the point of view, and seeing the world from a different angle — these are all made possible through the unique storytelling format of virtual reality. Thanks to the "Digital Autumn" festival, the audiences in three countries have a unique opportunity to see new works and understand the direction in which this new form of digital art is developing.
This year the “Digital Autumn” VR festival will take place in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia for the third time. The festival is organized by the French Institute in Russia in collaboration with the Less Media Group agency.
Future Events
MOSCOW
15.11 – 18.11.2024
VIEW PRESS-RELEASE →
SAINT PETERSBURG
01.11 – 10.11.2024
ALMATY
VIEW PRESS-RELEASE →
15.10 – 27.10.2024
Tickets available at the cash desk by the entrance
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.
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.
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
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.
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
produced by Lucid Realities
& Valk Production
Duration:
15 minutes
15 minutes
Interactive VR / 2024
Produced by Atlas V
& France Television
Produced by Atlas V
& France Television
Duration:
40 minutes
40 minutes
Venice Immersive 2023
Winner of the Achievement Award
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.
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
produced by Floreal Films
Duration:
20 minutes
20 minutes
Venice Immersive 2021
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize
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.
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) 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)
(To the End of the World)
Duration:
10 minutes
10 minutes
360° Video / 2019
produced by Zobra Production
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.
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
Jury Award Winner
Duration:
38 minutes
38 minutes
360° Animation / 2022
produced by Atlas V
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
produced by Les Produits Frais (Oriane Hurard), Arte France, 2018
Duration:
8 minutes
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.
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
5 minutes
360° Animation / 2022
produced by Orange
produced by Orange
Missing Pictures:
Naomi Kawase
XR Peabody Awards 2022
Peabody Legacy Interactive Winner
Peabody Legacy Interactive Winner
Duration:
20 minutes
20 minutes
Interactive VR / 2018
produced by ARTE
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.
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
15 minutes
360° Animation / 2022
produced by Atlas V
produced by Atlas V
Venice Immersive 2023
Winner of the Jury Special Prize
Winner of the Jury Special Prize
Emmy Award 2022
Outstanding Interactive Media Innovation category
Outstanding Interactive Media Innovation category
Interactive VR / 2021
produced by Floreal Films
produced by Floreal Films
Duration:
25 minutes
25 minutes
Venice Immersive 2020
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize
Cannes Film Festival 2021
Best XR work
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
produced by Barberousse Films, Arte France
Duration:
6 minutes
6 minutes
This experience will be shown for four days in each of the festival locations. Check the dates with the organizer.
Cross-cultural VR initiative introduced by Less Media Group in partnership with the French Institute. VR Festival showcasing award-winning narrative VR projects in Tashkent, Almaty, Astana, Moscow and Saint Petersburg
The immersive format is gaining popularity worldwide, and this year, audiences in five cities across Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Russia will once again have the opportunity to see both the latest innovations in immersive cinema and iconic projects that have already become classics in virtual reality.
This year, the main theme of the festival is PERSPECTIVE. Changing perspective, altering the point of view, and seeing the world from a different angle — these are all made possible through the unique storytelling format of virtual reality. Thanks to the "Digital Autumn" festival, the audiences in three countries have a unique opportunity to see new works and understand the direction in which this new form of digital art is developing.
This year the “Digital Autumn” VR festival will take place in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia for the third time. The festival is organized by the French Institute in Russia in collaboration with the Less Media Group agency.
SAINT PETERSBURG
01.11 – 10.11.2024
Future events
VIEW PRESS-RELEASE →
MOSCOW
07.11 – 10.11.2024
VIEW PRESS-RELEASE →
ALMATY
15.10 – 27.10.2024
Tickets available at the cash desk by the entrance
Programme 2024
FLOW
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.
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.
360° animation
15 minutes
Venice Immersive 2023
Winner of the Jury Special Prize
Winner of the Jury Special Prize
This experience will be shown for four days in each of the festival locations. Check the dates with the organizer.
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.
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.
Interactive VR
40 minutes
Venice Immersive 2023
Winner of the Achievement Award
Winner of the Achievement Award
Goliath:
Playing with Reality
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.
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.
Interactive VR
20 minutes
Venice Immersive 2021
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize
Emmy Award 2022
Outstanding Interactive Media Innovation category
Outstanding Interactive Media Innovation category
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.
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
25 minutes
Venice Immersive 2020
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize
Cannes Film Festival 2021
Best XR work
Best XR work
-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.
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.
360° Video
10 minutes
On the Morning You Wake (To the End of the World)
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.
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.
360° Animation
38 minutes
SXSW Film Festival
Jury Award Winner
Jury Award Winner
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.
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.
360° Video
8 minutes
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.
360° Animation
5 minutes
Notes on Blindness:
Into Darkness
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.
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.
Interactive VR
20 minutes
XR Peabody Awards 2022
Peabody Legacy Interactive Winner
Peabody Legacy Interactive Winner
Missing Pictures:
Naomi Kawase
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.
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.
360° Animation
15 minutes
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
6 minutes