Square the Circle
Hannah Hovitie / Finland / XR Film / 18 min Hanna Hovitie's Square the Circle is a little circular film about one person’s round trip out to the (un)known universe and into themselves, in search of a sense of belonging. To “square the circle” is an attempt to do the impossible: look into infinity, accept […]
Kindred
Bambou Kenneth / Electric Skies / VR / 9 min The gruelling process that potential adoptive parents have to go through is given a personal touch by this warmhearted example of digital storytelling. Bambou Kenneth considers the flaws embedded into the adoption system in a non-judgmental manner and pushes us to take a more open-minded […]
Blood Relations
Analee Weinberger / NFB / Canada / VR / 18 min “What makes us who we are?” is the question that drives this whimsical VR experience about an adopted child and an ancestral mystery. Using vintage objects, photographs and ephemera, the narrator takes us on a poignant quest, from a scrapyard in Vancouver to the […]
XR Identity
Alex Honnold: The SoloistAlex Honnold is one of the world's most famous free-climbers and many viewers were left wincing upon witnessing some of his more dangerous climbs in the documentary Free Solo. The Soloist further immerses the viewer in Honnold's world, by placing them in the position of a free climber carrying out a dangerous […]
Galup
Ian Wilkes, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger / Same DrumAustralia / VR / 9 min This Aussie VR film was produced with the goal of bringing attention to an under-discussed aspect of Australia's colonial history. Aboriginal Elder Doolann-Leisha Eatts spent decades raising awareness about Australia's racist past and in this short film, she tells the story of […]
XR for Change: Missing 10 Hours
Fanni Fazakas / RUMEXR / Hungary / VR / 18 min The Director Fanni Fazakas is currently Te Herenga Waka – Senior Lecturer at MDT – Master of Design Technology Missing 10 Hours is the winner of the XR Impact Award 2023 – Best International Experience. This XR experience takes aim at the infamous bystander […]
NZ XR: Finding Self
4 x NZ VR World PremieresEvokeEvery human being has dreamed of becoming a goddess at one point in their lives and this VR dance experience draws out your inner Venus.This visually beautiful, poetic and surreal experience is part dance-film, part guided-visualisation. You move between floating in a night sky to dancing in vast, epic landscapes. […]
XR for Change: Untold Stories
Missing 10 Hours This XR experience takes aim at the infamous bystander effect, a social psychological theory that has gained currency in recent years. We are invited to bear witness to a horrific series of events and slowly realise how easy it is for a vulnerable young woman to become a victim of date rape. […]
XR Films
Square the Circle Hanna Hovitie’s Square the Circle is a little circular film about one person’s round trip out to the (un)known universe and into themselves, in search of a sense of belonging. To “square the circle” is an attempt to do the impossible: look into infinity, accept the perpetual passing of time, survive a […]
XR Culture & Society
No Place But HereIn early 2017, the South Africa-based Reclaim the City movement occupied the Woodstock building, which had previously served as a hospital. This act served as a symbolic protest against growing wealth inequality and gentrification in the area. This documentary places the viewer in the shoes of one of the activists and forces […]
Myriad
Lena Thiele, Sebastian Baurmann / Germany / VR19 min Humans have always faced certain challenges when attempting to understand and empathise with animals. This has proven to be a real problem for animal rights activists who aim to protect endangered species from being wiped out by environmentally unfriendly practices. The MYRIAD project aims to solve […]
Container
Simon Wood, Meghna Singh / Electric SouthSouth Africa / VR / 17 min Container makes visible the ‘invisiblized’ bodies enabling our consumer society. Confronting slavery through an ever-transforming shipping container, the past becomes the present, the invisible become visible. We witness the shards of society: the ghosts of the past and living spectres of the […]
