Innsbruck Immersive


︎VR Film Festival ︎︎




23+24 November 2024 @ St.Bartlmä3

11:00-20:00





Das Innsbruck Immersive VR Film Festival ist eine Veranstaltung, die der Erforschung und Vorführung preisgekrönter VR (Virtual Reality)-Filme in der Innsbrucker und Tiroler Community gewidmet ist. Das Festival findet am 23. und 24. November 2024 im St. Bartmä 3 in Innsbruck statt und ist für alle Interessierten frei zugänglich und kostenlos.

Eine Liste der gezeigten VR-Filme finden Sie weiter unten.
Sie sind herzlich willkommen, vorbeizuschauen und die Filme zu genießen.

Wir bitten Sie, sich hier für einen Timeslot einzutragen, falls Sie Ihren Besuch im Voraus planen. Sie können aber auch gerne spontan vorbeischauen und die Filme je nach Verfügbarkeit erleben.

︎TIMESLOTS FILME 






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VR-FILME




The Imaginary Friend


Buch und Regie: Steye Hallema
Produktion: Studio Biarritz
Dauer: 25’
https://studiobiarritz.nl/project/the-imaginary-friend
https://theimaginaryfriend.nl/

Eight-year-old Daniel has recently lost his mother... With his feelings all muddled, he is deeply afraid that the Kill Ghosts are out to get his happy memories of her! To fight them off, he thinks up YOU, the player. Finally having someone to talk to, he excitedly begins to share his world with you. However, the more Daniel engages with you, the more the world around begins to question his sanity. Is he talking to himself? Bullied by his classmates, Daniel retreats further into his imagination. A worried father tries to intervene, taking Daniel to the ‘head-fixers’!
After the visit to the hospital Daniel isn’t quite sure any more about what’s real and what’s imagined. He forcefully attempts to remove you from his mind. However, as soon as the Kill Ghosts attack again, you return. When the monsters get the upper hand, you and Daniel take flight. The words of Daniel’s mother give strength, helping Daniel realise he himself is in control of his imagination.






Emperor



Regie: Marion Burger & Ilan Cohen
Produktion: Atlas V
Dauer: 40’
https://atlasv.io/project/emperor/

EMPEROR is an interactive and narrative experience in virtual reality, which invites the user to travel inside the brain of a father, suffering from aphasia. It is the story of a man who’s lost his ability to speak, and of the daughter trying to communicate with him. It is the story of a woman, who wasn’t given the chance to know the man behind her father, now obscured by this illness. As she tries to piece together what remains of his language, she discovers that his relationship to words is connected to his memories. The memories of an entire lifetime... Step by step, clue after clue, we will dive alongside her into the inner world of this man, in an attempt to decipher the story he can no longer tell us. In a monochrome aesthetic, close to traditional animation, this personal story is told as a journey with surreal overtones, offering to explore aphasia as a distant country. EMPEROR is a poetic experience of the loss of one’s faculties, of the passing of time, and of the bonds which, through it all, remain.





End of Night


Regie: David Adler
Produktion: Makropol
Dauer: 49’
https://endofnightvr.com/

1943. You are sitting in a boat with Josef. He is rowing from Nazi-occupied Denmark to safety in neutral Sweden. As the boat crosses the ocean, the sea gives way to the streets and people that populate his mind. Your journey together becomes a living landscape of painful recollections from the night of his escape. As dawn draws near, you will witness the trauma of escape and the guilt of surviving – when loved ones are left behind.
END of NIGHT is an artistic mix of advanced technologies such as photogrammetry and volumetric video, blended together into a collage-like 3D universe. Although realistic in its depiction of war-torn Copenhagen, and based on real accounts, the fictional experience unfolds like dimly recalled fragments of a painful memory.




Shadowtime


Regie: Sister Sylvester and Deniz Tortum
Produktion: Institute of Time
Dauer: 20’
https://www.instituteoftime.com/ark

“You are in two worlds at the same time.
Your body is in the other world, but your heart is in this one.”
To exist in the virtual world is to have two bodies, four hands, two hearts. Alma, a mysterious guide to this double world, leads you through questions around the climate crisis, irreconcilable realities, and the virtual as a place to take shelter.
Shadowtime is a new word coined for our age, describing the feeling of occupying two irreconcilable times simultaneously. It is being stuck in a traffic jam on your way to work and realizing that the gas in your engine is the compressed mass of prehistoric creatures. It is scrolling through your phone and remembering that the earth is changing irrevocably. In ‘Shadowtime’, we take these temporal incompatibilities and explore them in the realm of virtual reality and simulation theory.




All That Remains


Regie: Craig Quintero
Produktion: Riverbed Theatre
Dauer: 12’
https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2022/venice-immersive/all-remains

We are comforted by facts, by the familiarity of things we know to be ‘true.’ The sun rises in the East. There are twenty-four hours in a day. I exist. These truisms simplify our lives, enable us to get through the process of living. We are not afraid to leap into the air, because we know we will land on the ground. So we get by, day by day, until that unexpected moment when we are overwhelmed by the whisper in our hearts as we are sitting in a bustling coffee shop or walking down a crowded sidewalk, or as we are lying in bed with a loved one, nestled together... Despite all of our knowing, we will never be known. All That Remains is a meditation on the fluid boundary between dream and reality, fear and desire. It is an invitation to see and be seen.





Over the Rainbow



Regie: Craig Quintero
Produktion: Riverbed Theatre
Dauer: 11’
https://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2023/venice-immersive/over-rainbow

We are comforted by facts, by the familiarity of things we know to be ‘true.’ The sun rises in the East. There are twenty-four hours in a day. I exist. These truisms simplify our lives, enable us to get through the process of living. We are not afraid to leap into the air, because we know we will land on the ground. So we get by, day by day, until that unexpected moment when we are overwhelmed by the whisper in our hearts as we are sitting in a bustling coffee shop or walking down a crowded sidewalk, or as we are lying in bed with a loved one, nestled together... Despite all of our knowing, we will never be known. All That Remains is a meditation on the fluid boundary between dream and reality, fear and desire. It is an invitation to see and be seen.





Goliath: Playing With Reality



Konzipiert und produziert von Anagram
Regie: Barry Gene Murphy und May Abdalla
Stimme: Tilda Swinton
Dauer: 25’
https://goliathvr.io/

The Universe is revolving around me in a bad way.Through mind-bending animation, award-winning GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY explores the limits of reality in this true story of so-called ‘schizophrenia’ and the power of gaming communities. Echo (narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Tilda Swinton) guides you through the many realities of Goliath, a man who spent years isolated in psychiatric 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.










Wir möchten dem Land Tirol und der Stadt Innsbruck herzlich für ihre Unterstützung danken. Unser Dank gilt auch Hochbau und dem ./studio3 Institut für Experimentelle Architektur der Universität Innsbruck für die Bereitstellung der notwendigen Ausstattung. Zudem sind wir den Creators, Regisseurinnen und Produzentinnen der ausgestellten VR-Filme zutiefst dankbar, deren Beiträge maßgeblich dazu beigetragen haben, diese Initiative zum Leben zu erwecken.