SPECIAL PROGRAM: SCREENING OF THE BIO-FEEDBACK FILM EXPERIENCE V F C
WHERE? AT DOX.
WHEN? DECEMBER 2 & 3.
V F C by C.S. Roy
Canada, 2023, B&W/colour, 99 min
Language: French with English subtitles
V F C is a feature-length bio-feedback enhanced cinema experience. Acclaimed Inuk singer Elisapie Isaac makes her screen debut as a neuroscience researcher seeking refuge from a music-pervasive world after developing a rare form of melophobia (fear of music). Through a new multi-user adaptive audio technology, each viewer can hear a customized soundtrack generated in response to their real-time cognitive state, using an EEG headset and bone-conduction headphones. A companion web app then allows viewers to access a post-screening account of how unique their experience has been, through user-friendly data visualizations, average group results and scientific groundings.
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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
The first international competition in Central and Eastern Europe brings together 12 films from around the world that stand out for their unique artwork, original interactive elements and impressive physical installations. A total of three projects will be awarded - for best VR, best design and best storytelling.
21-22 China
A hypnotizing and disturbing fly over China, showing how humans have been changing the landscape.
Berlin 2037
A VR experience combining a real-life bike ride with a virtual immersion into a futuristic and sustainable vision of Berlin.
Body of Mine
Have a look in a mirror and see someone else: How does it feel to experience the feelings that your body does not fit?
Eurydice: A Descent into Infinity
A VR adaptation of the opera of Eurydice and Orpheus that takes the audience into the underworld and spiritual infinity.
Flow
A visual essay about the power and tenderness of the wind, which weaves through the world from all sides.
Jailbirds
In a high tower above the sea, two prisoners share a cell. But one of them manages to leave it, even though his body remains between the prison walls.
Forager
A poetic VR project in which the viewer transforms into a mushroom with the help of visual, tactile and olfactory stimulations.
Let Nature Heal
What might a rebellion of nature against man and his efforts to remake the world look like?
Over the Rainbow
An unsettling dive into the strangeness of the human soul referencing the aesthetic of David Lynch.
Origen
Follow the snake through the Amazon forest and uncover stories and myths of the indigenous people. What is the relationship to their land? And what about yours?
Simple Songs About Death
A meditative cruise through a dead city, inviting you to ponder about mortality.
Temporal World
A haptisonic VR work that opens up a universe of experiences and memories of a young artist looking for her place in a new country.
TOPIC: DIMENSIONS OF EMPATHY
The thematic section will explore whether the VR medium is indeed justified as an "empathy machine". The thematic range is broad as the images reflect current social issues: for example, mental health, ethnic and sexual minority rights, environmental grief, body positivity, colonialism, women's rights, sexual violence and many more.
Sol-Air
These two young men command the air: one as a military drone pilot, the other as a falconer training an eagle. What happens when their paths cross?
Wish You Were Here
Is virtual reality really a "medium of empathy"? And can it be used to approach the experience of terminal illness?