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Atomu

Atomu
Shariffa Ali, Yetunde Dada
Extended Reality 2021
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France,
Kenya,
USA,
UK
2020
12 minutes
English

In the mythology of the Kikuyu community the Mugumo, the Kenyan fig tree, represents transformation and rebirth. This multiplayer VR experience invites us to witness a sacred ritual: Dancing around the Mugumo can turn a man into a woman and a woman into a man. We follow Waicici, a genderless person, in the quest for the most honest version of themselves.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Antoine Cayrol, Steve Jelly
Co-Producer
Steve Jelly, Arnaud Colinart, Opeyemi Olukemi, Rafael Pavon, Annick Jakobowicz, Simon Windsor
Production Company
POV Spark, France Télévisions, Dimension, Atlas V
Choreographer
Stephen Buescher
Key Collaborator
Andrew Orkin, Banna Dasta, Toby Coffey, Steve Jelly, Simon Windsor, Akash Kushwaha, Annick Jakobowicz, Stephen Buescher, Opeyemi Olukemi, Arnaud Colinart, Rafael Pavon, Antoine Cayrol, Derren Sinnott
Director
Shariffa Ali, Yetunde Dada
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2020
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The Droner
Karl Russell
Complete darkness, sensory overload is turned off. Sound takes over the lead and makes stories emerge. They play exclusively in our own heads.
2020
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The Droner

Der Dröhner
Karl Russell
Extended Reality 2020
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Germany
2020
7 minutes
without dialogue

Complete darkness. Our concentration turns to the spherical sounds around us. Basses wander through our body, triggering images, emotions. The sensory overload which usually has us so firmly in its grip is turned off. Sound – improvised and modulated interactively – takes the lead. Stories emerge. And all this exclusively in our own heads.

Lars Rummel

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Director
Karl Russell
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2020
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Gimme One
Montague FitzGerald
A subculture opens up: the ballroom scene reflects its reality, its ideas of cultural appropriation and self-empowerment far from the social norms of the majority.

UK

UK
2020
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Gimme One

Gimme One
Montague FitzGerald
Extended Reality 2020
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UK
2020
14 minutes
English

This insight into an international subculture shows that the ballroom scene is more than just extravagant competitions. Five ballroom dancers describe a reality in which white-dominated, heteronormative patterns have no place. They talk about ideas of cultural appropriation, about safe spaces, community and mutual support, about identity and self-expression.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Harry Silverlock
Co-Producer
Karteer Miyake-Mugler
Production Company
FitzFilmz
Editor
Montague FitzGerald
Creative Technologist
Joshua Pawlowski, George Jasper Stone
Sound
Becky Street
Score
Vjuan Allure, MikeQ, Joseph Summers
Key Collaborator
Kenzo Miyake-Mugler, Karteer Miyake-Mugler, Diva Miyake-Mugler, Brandon Okeke, Aysha Chamberlain
Director
Montague FitzGerald
Cinematographer
Harrison Willmott
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2020
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Gravity VR
Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni
Osario and Benedito live in a space where gravity doesn’t seem to exist. Their cosmos knows neither up nor down. But is all this lightness just an illusion after all?
2020
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Gravity VR

Gravity VR
Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni
Extended Reality 2020
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Brazil,
Peru
2020
16 minutes
English,
Portuguese (Brazil)

Osario and Benedito, two brothers, lead a quiet and isolated life. Gravity doesn’t seem to exist in their cosmos. Objects float around – no up, no down, no points of orientation. The two have never known anything else than this floating in space. We float along and are irritated: is all this lightness just an illusion?

Lars Rummel

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Production Company
Delirium XR
VR Developer
Owen Svelmoe
Motion Capture
Fabito Rychter
Script
Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni
Narrator
Peter Baker, Mauro Rychter
Key Collaborator
Owen Svelmoe
Director
Fabito Rychter, Amir Admoni
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Handwritten

Escrito à mão
Lui Avallos
Extended Reality 2021
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Brazil,
Portugal,
Italy,
France
2021
9 minutes
Portuguese (Brazil),
Italian,
French,
English

The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed human relationships. Archive material, 360° footage and artificially generated images are used to create a synaesthetic essay film about loneliness, insecurity and the increasing shift of our everyday life into the digital realm. Dystopic and anonymous stories merge in a collage of the disturbing social and political phenomena of our time.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Rodrigo Moreira
Production Company
Mundivagante Studio
Editor
Lui Avallos
Narrator
Lui Avallos, Agnese Riaudo, Filippo Stagnini, Jessica Menezes
Director
Lui Avallos
Cinematographer
Lui Avallos
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2021
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Hush
Vibeke Bryld
A meditative journey into Norse mythology: While the earthly world is dissolving, voices draw us into a lost underwater universe.
2020
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Hush

Havfolket kalder mørknet vand
Vibeke Bryld
Extended Reality 2021
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Denmark
2020
12 minutes
without dialogue

In Norse mythology there are numerous sagas about water creatures that lure sailors out to sea. This VR experience takes us on a meditative journey to this mythical reality. While the world around us is dissolving, voices draw us into a lost underwater universe in which the boundaries between reality, fantasy, humans and nature fade.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Maria Kristensen
Executive Producer
Heidi Elise Christensen, Signe Byrge Sørensen
Production Company
Final Cut for Real
Animation
Lars Hemmingsen Nørgaard
VR Developer
Lars Hemmingsen Nørgaard
Artistic Design
Elin Maria Johansson
Sound
Mads Michelsen, Sune Kaarsberg
Score
Signe Lykke
Director
Vibeke Bryld
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2020
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Hypha
Natalia Cabrera
A VR experience that's really a whole universe. Hardly anyone knows the world of fungi, though it surrounds us. Here we shrink to a hypha and become part of it.
2020
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Hypha

Hypha
Natalia Cabrera
Extended Reality 2020
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Chile
2020
17 minutes
English,
Spanish

In collaboration with the mycologist and activist Giuliana Furci a VR experience was created that actually contains a whole universe. Hardly anyone knows the world of fungi, though it surrounds and shapes us. We shrink to the size of a hypha, communicate with tree-roots, transform toxins into valuable nutrients and become part of a nearly endless but invisible network carrying our earth.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Seba Gonzalez
Production Company
Maltrato Films
VR Developer
Paola G. Olea
3D Artist
Javier Garay
Sound
Diego Aguilar
Script
Juan Ferrer, Natalia Cabrera
Score
Daniel Maraboli
Narrator
Trinidad Piriz
Key Collaborator
Nicolás Oyarce
Director
Natalia Cabrera
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Ilios

Ilios
Marcel Karnapke, Mika Johnson
Extended Reality 2020
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Germany,
Czech Republic
2020
9 minutes
English,
German

When the artist duo Karnapke and Johnson are separated by Covid-19 in the middle of a project, the result is a correspondence about the constant change we live in. The VR experience based on this is a walk-in meditation: about reality, about normality and about the signs that distinguish the rule from the exception, visualized in a space made of countless particles.

Lars Rummel

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Concept
Marcel Karnapke
VR Developer
Marcel Karnapke
Sound
Jackson Bierfeldt
Script
Mika Johnson
Narrator
Mika Johnson, Jackson Bierfeldt
Director
Marcel Karnapke, Mika Johnson
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2021
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Infomorph
Arash Akbari
We are guided through a speculative posthumanist scenario revolving around the relationship between humans, machines and nature. An AI helps with the transition into the digital.
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Infomorph

Infomorph
Arash Akbari
Extended Reality 2021
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Iran,
Netherlands
2021
10 minutes
English

We meet an artificial intelligence designed to ease our transition into the digital. Life in the analogue world is no longer possible, not even necessary. The VR experience guides us through a speculative scenario that illuminates the relationship between humans, machines and nature in posthumanism. Texts, images and sounds were created by means of AI and algorithms.

Lars Rummel

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VR Developer
Arash Akbari
Interactive Design
Arash Akbari
Creative Technologist
Arash Akbari
Coding
Arash Akbari
Sound
Farzaneh Nouri
Score
Farzaneh Nouri
Director
Arash Akbari
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Kykeon

Kykeon
Mária Júdová
Extended Reality 2021
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Slovakia,
UK,
Germany
2020
23 minutes
without dialogue

Inspired by ritual practices from different cultures, the VR experience addresses the loss of a sense of community and empathy, combining modern dance and VR technology to re-examine old rites and reveal their meaningful potential for future societies. The title of the work refers to what legend has it is an “enlightening” potion from ancient Greece.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Mara Nedelcu
Co-Producer
Motion Bank (Hochschule Mainz), Sensorium Festival
Creative Technologist
Marko Júda
VFX Artist
Florian Friedrich (Narranoid)
Sound
Alexandra Timpau
Choreographer
Taneli Törmä
Performer
Milena Wiese, Finn Lakeberg, Bojana Mitrović, Amber Pansters, Zachary Chant
Director
Mária Júdová
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2020
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Locus Solus
Krzysztof Garbaczewski
Loosely based on Raymond Roussel’s novel “Locus Solus”, we explore the world of the inventor Martial Canterel. His estate is a place of innovation but completely without morals.
2018
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Locus Solus

Locus Solus
Krzysztof Garbaczewski
Extended Reality 2020
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Poland
2018
20 minutes
English

Loosely based on Raymond Roussel’s novel “Locus Solus”, we explore the world of the inventor Martial Canterel. His estate is a place of innovation, a space for experiments that elude ethical responsibility. All its guests become objects of research – and must ask themselves whether scientific progress justifies every sacrifice.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Wojtek Markowski
Production Company
Dream Adoption Society
VR Developer
Maciej Gniady
Artistic Design
Marta Nawrot, Jagoda Wójtowicz
Coding
Maciej Gniady
Sound
Jan Duszyński, Bartosz Zaskórski
Narrator
Jim Fletcher, Iza Szostak
Director
Krzysztof Garbaczewski
Cinematographer
Robert Mleczko
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Reeducated

Reeducated
Sam Wolson
Extended Reality 2021
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Kazakhstan,
USA
2021
21 minutes
English,
Kazakh

In spring 2017, authorities in China’s Xinjiang region, without any legal basis, began detaining thousands of Uyghurs, Kazakhs and other predominantly Muslim minorities in so-called re-education camps. This animated 360° film reconstructs the memories of three men who had to endure political indoctrination, torture and solitary confinement.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Ben Mauk, Sam Wolson, Nicholas Rubin, Matt Huynh
Executive Producer
Soo-Jeong Kang, Monica Racic
Artistic Design
Matt Huynh
Creative Technologist
Nicholas Rubin
VFX Artist
Nicholas Rubin
Sound
Jon Bernson
Script
Sam Wolson, Ben Mauk
Score
Jon Bernson
Narrator
Amanzhan Seituly, Erbaqyt Otarbai, Orynbek Koksebek
Key Collaborator
Nicholas Rubin, Ben Mauk, Matt Huynh
Director
Sam Wolson
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2021
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Revelation 360
Reed O’Beirne
A mirror sculpture at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London: There seems to be nothing there. Or is there? The limits of our imagination become the true narrative.

UK

UK
2021
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Revelation 360

Revelation 360
Reed O’Beirne
Extended Reality 2021
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UK
2021
6 minutes
English

Nothing meets everything in a digital moment of limbo. We find ourselves in the middle of a mirror sculpture at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. There seems to be nothing there, but we are repeatedly asked to see more. The limits of our imagination and orientation become the true narrative. We could escape it at any time. But what would we be missing then?

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Reed O’Beirne
Production Company
Reedoco
Editor
Reed O’Beirne
Creative Technologist
Reed O’Beirne
Sound
Sam Gray
Script
Reed O’Beirne
Narrator
Heather Tracy
Key Collaborator
Kamila Kuc
Director
Reed O’Beirne
Cinematographer
Reed O’Beirne
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2021
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Samsara
Hsin-Chien Huang
Earth is destroyed, time nothing but an illusion. In space we explore our new collective consciousness and assume forms not originally envisaged by our DNA.
2021
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Samsara

Lun hui
Hsin-Chien Huang
Extended Reality 2021
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Taiwan
2021
21 minutes
English

What happens when we have to leave the destroyed earth? This VR experience takes us into space: Our consciousness becomes collective and our DNA is modified into new life forms. Time is nothing but an illusion here – past, present and future merge. We end up where we began, but in what form and when? A cycle of endless reincarnation.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Hsiao-Yue Tsau
Executive Producer
Chung-Hsien Chen
Production Company
Virtual and Physical Media Integration Association of Taiwan
Editor
Hsin-Chien Huang
Interactive Design
Wei-Chieh Chiu
Artistic Design
Guan-Yi Li, Zu-Wei Chen
Creative Technologist
Wei-Chieh Chiu, Hua-Lun Wu, Chun-Yen Yu, Pei-Yang Yeh
Motion Capture
4DViews
Sound
Jason Binnick
Score
Jason Binnick
Director
Hsin-Chien Huang
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2021
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Tangible Utopias: Urban Futurism
Ioana Mischie
What will future urban environments look like? This VR experience turns children’s fantasies into walk-through urban scenarios – alternative architectures for the societies of tomorrow.
2021
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Tangible Utopias: Urban Futurism

Utopii tangibile: Futurism urban
Ioana Mischie
Extended Reality 2021
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Romania
2021
10 minutes
English

What will future urban environments look like? And how are they designed when they are inspired by the imagination of children? 250 children used their imagination to envision the city of tomorrow. On this basis, the VR experience designs walk-through scenarios. The work is part of an ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration to develop new concepts for changing societies.

Lars Rummel

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Producer
Ioana Mischie, Sorin Baican
Co-Producer
Mircea Olteanu, Horia Spirescu, Vivek Reddy, Călin Bogdacenco
Production Company
Noe-Fi Studios, SeeThree, Studioset, Storyscapes
Editor
Bogdan Jugureanu
VR Developer
Andrei Păun, Minodora Toma, Andrei Bîrsan, Horia Spirescu, Dimitrie Grigorescu
Interactive Design
Abhinav Sonowal, Vivek Anand, Adrian Tăbăcaru
3D Artist
Alexandru Pop
Sound
Andrei Nechifor, Ina Bozdog
Script
Ioana Mischie, children of “Government of Children ”
Director
Ioana Mischie
Extended Reality: DOK Neuland 2020
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The Shape of Us
Anna Mauersberger, Niki Smit
Accompanied by Mother Nature we embark on a collective journey. In this multiplayer VR ritual, we get the chance to become reconciled with her and ourselves.
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The Shape of Us

The Shape of Us
Anna Mauersberger, Niki Smit
Extended Reality 2020
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Germany,
Netherlands
2020
45 minutes
German,
English

Welcome to the Anthropocene. Welcome to an age entirely shaped by humanity’s actions. This multiplayer VR ritual arranges a meeting with Mother Nature. We get the chance to become reconciled with her, re-establish lost connections to the world and re-achieve some harmony with the earth and ourselves.

Lars Rummel

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Concept
HeartWire
Production Company
Monobanda
VFX Artist
Charlotte Madelon
Coding
Wijnand van Tol, Niels van Duivenvoorden
Sound
Paradoxical Recording
Script
Anselm Maria Sellen
Score
Alex Simu
Key Collaborator
Robert Bosch Stiftung
Director
Anna Mauersberger, Niki Smit