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.
FILMGATE INTERACTIVE
MEDIA FESTIVAL #08
O CINEMA SOUTH BEACH
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Brainstream
Creators: Caroline Robert, Studio AATOAA
Country: Canada
Medium: iPad
Year: 2021
The story of D, a young girl live-streaming her brain activity in a virtual treatment session. While giving a guided tour inside her head, this interactive film displays her thoughts as they take shape through quirky animations, letting her mind wander with our help. An intimate, feel-good, offbeat foray into the mazes of brain activity. Brainstream explores the plasticity and fascinating operations of our brain—from our mind’s capacity to be constantly active to the ever-changing nature of our thoughts.
Festival Program at O CINEMA:
South Beach - Saturday, December 4th
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Miami Montreal New Narratives Lab Final Pitches
(3 PM to 5 PM)
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Six creators from marginalized genders/sexes from Montreal and Miami collaborated in an intensive augmented reality lab, conceived and mentored by FilmGate Miami, the National Film Board of Canada, MUTEK, and O Cinema. The Lab is organized in collaboration with the Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC), with the support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the City of Montréal, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the CreARTE Jorge M. Perez Family Foundation and the Canadian Embassy in Miami. Free and open to the public.
with a special presentation of the
Smartphone Orchestra
Country: Netherlands
Creators: Steye Hallema, Eric Magnée, Hidde de Jong
Medium: Smartphone Browser
Year: 2021
Music for Smartphones: ​Imagine that all the phones from the audience are synchronized, and each phone plays a different musical part through its speaker. This experience opens up innovative new ways to engage audiences by telling stories with the audience instead of to.
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VIP Event (5 PM to 8 PM)
O Canada Cocktail at Alacran Studios, Miami Beach
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*Transportation to the O Cinema will only be provided to VIP guests, via party bus from the Downtown Media Center, leaving at noon.
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O, Canada! (Open to the public from 10 AM to 6 PM)​
Walking a Turtle
Creator: Jeremy Rotsztain
Country: Canada
Medium: VR (Oculus Rift)
Year: 2021
A virtual reality experience where players go on a walk following a tortoise, interpreted from Walter Benjamin’s accounts of a curious ritual of Parisian flâneurs. “Around 1840, it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades.” Part game, part quantified-self wellness tracker, Walking a Turtle is a farcical tool for resisting the attention economy.
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Stiltsville VR
Creators: José Guzman, Diliana Alexander, Segundo Correas
Country: Canada/US
Medium: VR (Oculus Quest 2)
Year: 2021
An interactive narrative experience on the Oculus Quest 2 in which you play as a photographer traveling through 100 turbulent years of the highs and lows of a magical place in the middle of Biscayne Bay, just off the coast of Miami.
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Powered by a Knight Foundation Arts Challenge Grant.
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Special Presentation of Motto and Brainstream from studio AATOAA and the National Film Board of Canada
(1 PM to 3 PM)​
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Motto
Creators: Vincent Morisset, Studio AATOAA
Country: Canada
Medium: Smartphone Browser
Year: 2020
A playful, one-of-a-kind adventure—an interactive novella that uses thousands of tiny videos to tell the thousand-year tale of a kindhearted spirit named September. Part ghost story, part scavenger hunt, Motto finds a way to be both documentary and fiction— incorporating participants’ lo-fi, unstaged footage.
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