If tech leads to anxiety more often than serenity, the VR Live Mandala Experience may alter your state of mind. But you’ll need to dash to Allapattah Tuesday to partake.
Hands in the controls, VR headset strapped on, you’re ready to climb the Himalayas and enter the Temple of the Tilting Buddha.
Marchak said she was one of about 70 businesses that had to rush out of the decades-old building at 168 Southeast 1st Street in downtown Miami.
An unsafe structures notice was posted on the front door a few days later and a police officer was in the lobby Friday as tenants took out some of their belongings and furniture.
“They made it seem like we were going through what Surfside went through and it will collapse on us,” said tenant Diliana Alexander.
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Media Festival #07
VIRTUAL REALITY
BATTLESCAR follows the life of 16-year- old Lupe, a Puerto Rican-American teenager living in late 1970’s New York City. Lupe’s handwritten journal guides us through her experiences as she meets Debbie, another runaway kid living in the city.
Carried by two strong female characters, the story exudes the energy of New York punk-rock - fast and harsh, loaded with anti-authoritarian ideology and political messages, expressing a young rebellion characterized by the main characters independent and determined attitudes.
BattleScar is a coming of age drama that explores the theme of identity through the use of animation and immersive environments in virtual reality.
DIRECTED BY: Nico Casavecchia & Martin Allais
LENGTH: 30 minutes
FORMAT: 3x10mn/vr6dof + 360 Video Version
PUBLIC: Mature audiences
AVAILABLE LANGUAGES: English, Spanish, French, German, Mandarin
VR INFO: All VR devices (no controllers required)
PLAY AREA: 4 x 8 ft
PRODUCED BY: Atlas V in coproduction with 1stavemachine, Fauns and Arte France in association with Kaleidoscope, with the support of CNC & La Région Auvergne Rhône-Alpes
NARRATED BY: Rosario Dawson & Jenny Beth
CREATORS
MARTIN ALLAIS is a visual artist, illustrator, animator, and director. Experimentation, freshness, and playfulness are key elements in his work, which strongly reflects in his finished pieces.
He co-founded the collective No-Domain, directing commercials for brands like Heineken, Seat and G4 Channel, among others. Whilst Martin was part of No-Domain, the New York based production company, Blacklist, Part of Psyop Inc, represented the collective. Psyop is a multi-awarded production company, and creators of iconic commercials such as Coca Cola’s Happy Factory Campaign and Crow for MTV.
Martin has participated in international events like Designmai (Berlin), Sperm (Prague), Mapping (Genève) and Sonar Festival Barcelona (editions of 2004 to 2007), touring with the festival as the official video performer.
NICO CASAVECCHIA is an Argentinian director, screenwriter and illustrator based in Brooklyn. His work employs mixed-media techniques ranging from animation to live action. His first feature film Finding Sofía, a live action narrative film, premiered at the Austin Film Festival in 2016.
Nico directed A Boy and His Atom (2013), a stop-motion animated short lm created by IBM Research scientists. It was made by moving carbon monoxide molecules, and is recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s smallest stop-motion film.
Nico’s work has been showcased in festivals like Sundance, SXSW, BAFICI, Siggraph, Viedram (Rome), Holland Film Festival, Ars Electronica, among others, and has collected Gold & Bronze statues in Cannes, Clio, AICP, and London LIA awards.
PROJECT GALLERY
TRAILER
SPACED OUT (France)
From lead artist, Pyaré, SPACED OUT is an underwater VR experience using the revolutionary VR waterproof headset, DiVR by Ballast Technologies . It invites visitors to float on water while breathing with a snorkel, giving an illusion of being immersed onto the lunar surface.
SPACED OUT transports the visitors from earth to the moon, from water to space and from the first to the third person leaving body behind, to reach the moon and then its hollow center.
The trip crosses in a tunnel of lines and points, a trajectory of the Earth on the surface of the moon, where the last Apollo 11 mission landed. SPACED OUT’s narration is composed by original audio archives of the communication between the three astronauts and the mission control. The running audio track clashes with the abstract 3D visual representation of what the 19th century writers believed the moon looked like. The piece is like a magic trick: simulating absence of gravity it bypasses the brain’s predispositions for an immersion of all senses.
CREATORS
Pierre “Pyaré” Friquet is a digital artist based in France and India who creates immersive experiences. Fascinated by immersive technologies since 2010, Pyaré has created more than a dozen VR fictions, documentaries, music videos, and dome- and location-based experiences. His VR original fiction (co-created with Ando Shah) Jet Lag won the Best Live-Action Experience Award at the Kaleidoscope VR Film Festival.