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-22.7 °C
Jan Kounen, Molécule, Amaury La Bruthe

O.V. French

Alone in Greenland, electronic music producer Molécule captures the sounds of the Arctic landscape to compose his next piece. Inspired by this adventure, the -22.7°C XR experience takes you on an initiatory journey, at the very heart of musical creation.

FRANCE | 10 minutes | 2019

7 LIVES
Charles Ayats, Sabrina Calvo, Jan Kounen

Lives is the fantasy tale of an impending death experience on the platform of a Japanese train that opens up a strange new world. Created by Charles Ayats, Sabrina Calvo and Jan Kounen, 7 lives explores the realm of universal emotions, beyond what any words can describe.

FRANCE, Luxembourg | 20 minutes | 2019

ANOTHER DREAM
Tamara Shogaolu

Another Dream is an animated VR documentary that brings to life the gripping, true love story of an Egyptian lesbian couple. Faced with a post-revolution backlash against the LGBTQ community, they escape Cairo to seek asylum and acceptance in the Netherlands.

In collaboration with EYE Film Institute Netherlands.

EGYPT, United States, Netherlands | 20 minutes | 0

BATTLESCAR — PUNK WAS INVENTED BY GIRLS
Martin Allais, Nico Casavecchia

BattleScar follows a year in the life of Lupe, A Puerto Rican-American living in late 1970’s New York City. It utilizes Lupe’s handwritten journal to guide us through her experiences in 1978 as she meets Debbie, in the cell of a juvenile detention center.

UNITED STATES, France | 28 minutes | 2019

COMMON GROUND
Darren Emerson

Explore the Aylesbury Estate, the biggest social housing project in Europe, home to thousands of South Londoners and a monument to the forgotten dreams and broken promises of successive
governments.

UNITED KINGDOM | 30 minutes | 2019

DOCTOR WHO — THE RUNAWAY
Mathias Chelebourg

You’ve been in a collision. You wake up inside the TARDIS. The Doctor introduces you to the person, or thing, you collided with: a strange and magnificent ball of living energy called Volta. Part surly teenager, part bomb, Volta is very unstable. In fact, he’s primed to explode.

UNITED KINGDOM | 13 minutes | 2019

FOREST
Kelsey Boncato, Daniel Oldham

Following a trail of strange plants to the center of a mushroom ring, the viewer is transported into the forest. A timed, music scored, meditative experience begins as the user glides through the virtual space.

UNITED STATES | 8 minutes | 2019

GLOOMY EYES
Fernando Maldonado, Jorge Tereso

In this story narrated by Colin Farrell, the sun gets tired of humankind and decides to hide and never rise again. As the darkness awakes the dead from their graves, a zombie kid named Gloomy and a mortal girl named Nena fall in love.

ARGENTINA, France | 18 minutes | 2019

THE HEART OF THE DARKNESS
SUTU

The Heart of Darkness is both an immersive drama and interactive music video. Inspired by Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, it is set on the dwarf planet Ceres, where Astrobiologist Captain Kurtz has gone missing from his outpost. As you journey deep into the Ceres cave network, you will learn the story of Kurtz' disappearance via the onboard Artificial Intelligence, Teeva.

AUSTRALIA | 13 minutes | 2019

THE KEY
Céline Tricart

The participant is lead through different environments, through dreams, and must face challenges and difficult decision in each, experiencing loss. The participant experiences a metaphorical journey from danger to safety, through which a hidden truth is uncovered and a new beauty revealed.

UNITED STATES, Iraq | 15 minutes | 2019

UNCEDED TERRITORIES
Pasely Smith, Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Unceded Territories is a provocative interactive XR experience that deals with climate change and indigenous civil rights by bringing audiences into a world formed of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun’s iconic art.

CANADA | 6 minutes | 2019

PLAYTIME
Catherine Bazinet, Maxime Boisvert, Ronan Le Gall, Alexis Maher, Charles Tétreault

Playtime transports us into the universe of a child’s imagination. When a child travels to another world, walls no longer exist, objects come alive and a myriad of colours are displayed in the eyes of those who dare to imagine.

QUéBEC, Canada | 0 minutes | 0

VISUAL MISTAKES_
Benoît Adam

Reality escapes us, and our perception sometimes has... errors. Visual Mistakes_ an interactive virtual reality experience that is for two people: one is immersed in a strange technological laboratory while the other can change the experience of the first.

QUéBEC, Canada | 5 minutes | 2019

BERGMAL
Éric Filion

Bergmál is the Icelandic word for echo. It could be translated as “The language of the rock” or “The language of mountains”. In Iceland, a burial is a departure or a trip to the land “jarðarför” – “jörð” being the word for land and “för”, the trip.

QUéBEC, Canada | 8 minutes | 2018

FISHERMAN'S TALE (CHAPITRE 1)
Balthazar Auxietre, Alexis Moroz, Alexis Moroz

You play as Bob, a fisherman’s puppet trapped inside a strange world replicated inside out in an infinite recursive loop, full of mischievous characters and mind-bending puzzles. Will you be able to find your way out?

FRANCE | 20 minutes | 2019

Program

Friday October 11, 2019

12:00
Salle d'expérimentation Hexagram-UQAM
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