XR Exhibition
Doc Edge XR Exhibition is a showcase of digital interactive storytelling featuring top international and local VR, AR, installations, and digital stories.
Storytelling is central to everything we do. Humans have been telling stories around campfires and kitchen tables from time immemorial. Our kaupapa is to celebrate, support and showcase documentary which includes bringing new immersive worlds to New Zealand audiences for them to participate in and experience.
XR, or Extended Reality, is an umbrella term for VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality), Interactive and Immersive storytelling. In a way, it encompasses anything beyond the traditional on-screen format.
Exhibition 2022
The 2022 XR exhibition will be held from 18 June to 3 July during Doc Edge Festival.
Auckland
18-19 June | Media Design School
23-26 June | The Civic & Auckland Museum
Wellington
20 June-3 July | Te Auaha Gallery
A total of 24 projects will be presented in a broad range of XR formats: Interactive VR, 180 & 360 VR Films, AI and AR Experiences, and Online Immersive and Immersive Installations.
VR Interactive
Inspired by the homes of ancestors with numerous memories, the main character builds a new house where he can carve his own memories.
Director Sunghwan Lee
Producer Rene Hyewon Lee , Mina Hyeon
Country South Korea
Year 2022 Duration 16 mins
Award/Festival SXSW 2022, DOK Leipzig 2021, IDFA DocLab 2020
Through mind-bending animation, explore the limits of reality and a true story of mental health and the power of gaming. Echo (narrated by Tilda Swinton) guides you through the many realities of Goliath.
Director Barry Gene Murphy & May Abdalla
Producer Floreal Films
Country France, UK
Year 2021 Duration 25 mins
Award/Festival Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Work at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.
Kusunda, a voice-driven interactive experience, explores what it means to lose a language and what it takes to preserve one.
Director Gayatri Parameswaran, Felix Gaedtke
Country Germany
Year 2021 Duration 20 mins
Award/Festival Stereopsia 2021, Tribeca Immersive 2021, VR NOW Awards 2021
Rangi Tuwhera Open Sky offers a glimpse into the world of Taonga Pūoro or traditional Māori instruments. We have a virtual encounter with a real pūtōrino and can examine the detailed carving on it created by master carver Sir Brian Flintoff.
Director Kat Lintott, Dave Whitehead
Country New Zealand
Year 2021 Duration 20 mins
Award/Festival imagineNATIVE 2021
This powerful virtual reality documentary allows audiences to experience the alarming events of January 13, 2018, in Hawai’i like never before.
Nothing Happened, Everything Changed
Director Pierre Zandrowicz , Mike Brett , Steve Jamison , Arnaud Colinart
Country France, UK
Year 2022 Duration 3 x chapters 20-60 mins
Award/Festival SXSW 2022 Winner XR Experience
VR Films
Whakakitenga transports viewers to 1846 on the eve of great change for the Ngati Toa people residing in Aotearoa, New Zealand. It provides a cinematic VR experience of the Maori world, through the eyes of Ngati Toa chief Te Rangihaeata.
Director Wiremu Grace, Miriam Ross, Paul Wolffram
Country New Zealand
Year 2020 Duration 9 mins
The Hangman at Home is an interactive animated experience exploring themes surrounding acknowledgement and the awkward intimacy of humanness. Told in five interwoven stories; each situation presents a person, or persons in a delicate moment: fragile, playful, terrified, contemplated, confused, curious.
Director Michelle Kranot , Uri Kranot
Producer Floreal Films
Country Canada, Denmark, France
Year 2020 Duration 25 mins
Take a look under the waves, get personal with the local marine life and discover the remains of the HMNZS Wellington (F69) shipwreck!
Director Nicole Miller
Producer Friends of Taputeranga Marine Reserve
Country New Zealand
Year 2022 Duration 3 mins
Immersive Installations
If your gods could whisper in your ear, what would they say?
Director Jermaine Dean, Tanu Gago
Producer Piki Films, FAFSWAG, Wrestler
Country New Zealand
Year 2021 Duration 4 mins
Awards/Festival Sundance as Virtual Experience, World Premiere as Physical Installation
Paradise is a two person AI-powered immersive audio experience for intimate partners in their own home. Part interactive game, part theatrical experience, audience members progress through a world of simulated scenarios that explore why we stay together or fall apart.
!!WARNING!! PLEASE BE AWARE SHOWS ARE 16+ AND EXPLORE THEMES OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE.
Director Gabo Arora, David Rosenberg, Glen Neath
Producer Darkfield, Light Shed, John Hopkins University
Country United States
Year 2022 Duration 30 mins
Awards/Festival SXSW 2022
Immersive Films
Documentary about the interaction between the Brazilian city’s inhabitants and what is expressed in its walls. Graffiti, indecipherable symbols, slogans, political thoughts, hieroglyphs, declarations of love.
Director Marcos Pimentel
Country Brazil
Year 2021 Duration from 75 min
The planet locks itself in. Our world is being drained of its substance and digital life forms are multiplying, like these couples who meet in a virtual universe. What if the crisis was not the pandemic, but the derealization of our lives?
Director Ayce Kartal
Country France
Year 2021 Duration from 6 mins
Emergence of patterns in chaos or the way we fall in love. True beauty is everywhere. Hard to reach, ephemeral and mysterious, or simply hidden from us, it shapes our ability to feel, to observe and to marvel about Nature and other beings.
Director Thomas Vans
Country France
Year 2021 Duration from 4 mins
Three Chinese ladies developed their romantic relationships with artificially intelligent virtual partners in real life.
Director Chouwa Liang
Country Australia
Year 2021 Duration from 16 mins
Phenomena fuses art and science together to explore naturally occurring patterns, and the fundamental forces of nature that create them, to take us on an ambitious, innovative, and psychedelic journey through the fabric of the universe.
Director Josef Gatti
Country Australia
Year 2021 Duration from 28 mins
Sentience starkly contrasts the stunning beauty of Guanxi Provence’s ancient mountains and the abrasive imposition of modernity playing out on Yangshou’s famous fourteen hundred-year-old West Street.
Director Elliot J. Spencer
Country Australia
Year 2021 Duration from 9 mins
Online Experience
What does normal mean? Mika Orr, director and daughter of a psychiatrist, takes a look at widespread mental disorders.
Director Mika Orr
Country France
Year 2021 Duration 8 – 96 mins
Awards/Festival IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling 2021
Discover the amazing selection of digital work at IF Digital Institut Francais
What is it like to communicate in sign language? Find out for yourself in Ravi and Emma, an interactive experience that celebrates diversity, inclusivity, and love—with humor and inventiveness. Join in and you’ll find yourself immersed in the story of deaf-born designer Ravi and Emma, a hearing student.
Director Kylie Boltin, Ella Rubeli, Ravi Vasavan, Emma Anderson
Country Australia
Year 2021 Duration 12 mins
Awards/Festival IDFA DocLab Liminal Reality 2021
A true story about a boy Wiesio Stypula, one of thousands of Polish orphans who were saved from the hell of World War II by an Indian Maharajah Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji
Director Thomas Stankiewicz
Country Poland
Year 2021 Duration 90 mins
Awards/Festival Slamdance International Film Festival 2021