Production: Providence, ARTE, ONFAntoine Viviani’s documentary project In Limbo questions what becomes of our individual and collective memory as the world goes digital. Part 1 is interactive:In Limbo, l’expérience Web unlocks digital memory to encounter the dreams and nightmares of a world where nothing is ever forgotten, and by linking their digital identities, Web users will be able to probe the collective memories of interconnected humanity. In Limbo also invites willing...
Interactive Work , Documentary
FRANCE, Canada | 120 minutes | 2014
Blast TheoryKaren is an app that mixes together gaming, storytelling and psychological profiling. Karen is a life coach, and she’ll be happy to help you work through a few things in your life. As soon as you launch Karen, she will ask you some questions about your outlook on the world. As she becomes more and more curious, Karen starts to identify things about you that she shouldn’t know. Where exactly is this going to end?Karen is a new work by Blast...
Interactive Work
ENGLAND | 120 minutes | 2014
Angad Singh Bhalla | Ted Biggs | Prod:NFBHerman Wallace spent over forty years in solitary confinement at Louisiana’s Angola prison, convicted of a crime he almost certainly did not commit. Powerful and poetic, The Deeper They Bury Me is an interactive portrait of defiance and an indictment of a criminal justice system that keeps 2.3 million citizens behind bars.
CANADA | 60 minutes | 2015
Mads Damsbo | Johan Knattrup JensenThe Doghouse is a first-person reality film, an experience for five users at a time designed for Oculus Rift. A table is laid out in a room. On each plate is a pair of glasses and some headphones. Each guest sits down, puts on the glasses and plugs in the headphones, instantly finding himself at a family meal, Festen style.The designers combine the roots of Dogma95 and immersion to create a revolutionary and exhilarating project.
DENMARK | 60 minutes | 2014
BeAnotherLabThe Machine to Be Another is a long-term investigation into the relationship between identity and empathy inspired by recent findings in neuroscience. The Machine to Be Another uses low- budget tools and embodiment techniques to let people see through the eyes of another, attempting to get as close as possible to replicating the subjective experience of someone else. It allows users to embody real people and real stories. A Creative Commons initiative, it has been replicated...
SPAIN, Mexico | 60 minutes | 2014
Stéphane Degoutin | Gwenola Wagon | Prod: IRREVERENCE FilmsWorld Brain is a journey into the Internet. The exploration continues with an investigation of the dreams of a collective intelligence and the hypothesis of a world brain in the form of a film essay and an interactive site (worldbrain.arte.tv). The World Brain installation reconstructs one of the film’s environments where a group of researchers try to survive in the woods using Wikipedia. The film is accompanied by a selection...
FRANCE | 60 minutes | 2015
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