VR Docs

Vitaliy Neachaev, Gabo Arora, Chris Milk en Darren Emerson 60 min.

Virtual reality is omnipresent, even at fi lm festivals. And there's a good reason for that: VR is no longer the exclusive new toy of technology geeks and early adopters of this new type of media. More and more movie directors are starting to work with the tool and are exploring its possibilities.

DOCVILLE 2016
Virtual Reality

Voor documentaire filmmakers opent deze technologie een nieuwe wereld. Met de VR bril op je neus en een hoofdtelefoon op je hoofd kom als kijker letterlijk midden ín een nieuwe realiteit. Een intense, adembenemende beleving die onvergelijkbaar is met het kijken naar een klassieke beeldscherm. DOCVILLE maakte een strenge selectie VR documentaires: een reeks sterk in beeld gebrachte korte documentaires die je van het ene moment op het andere naar de andere kant van de wereld brengen.

For documentary fi lmmakers, this technology opens up a new world. With VR goggles and headphones viewers fi nd themselves in the middle of a new reality. An intense, breathtaking experience, incomparable to watching a classic screen. DOCVILLE selected a series of strong short documentaries that take you to the other side of the world in a heartbeat. The Virtual Reality program includes four short fi lms. DOCVILLE employees provide, the necessary guidance and context between and after the fi lms. 

 

PROGRAM:

Happyland: In Metro Manila more than 40,000 people live -survive- on a large public dump. Five people testify about the predicament.. [Vitaliy Nechaev / Singapore / 2015 / 10 min] 

Waves of Grace: Decontee Davis survived the biggest ebola crisis in history, which recently erupted in Liberia. She testi es about the disaster that struck her country and about a project that she started, to help infected children. [Gabo Arora & Chris Milk / UK / 2015 / 10 min ]

Witness 360: 7/7: On July 7, 2005 a terrible terrorist act took place in London: four al-Qaeda terrorists blew themselves up. A survivor shares what  happened to her that day. [Darren Emerson / UK / 2015 / 13min] 

Clouds of Sidra: No fewer than 130,000 Syrian refugees live in the Zaatari refugee camp. Half of the residents are children. The film tells the story of Sidra, a 12-year-old girl who has been residing in Zaatari for 18 months.. [Gabo Arora + Chris Milk / UK / 2015 / 9 min]

 

PRACTICAL: A VR Docs screening lasts for 1 hour. You have to buy a regular ticket for a screening, just like for the other films on the DOCVILLE program. Please note that a show is open to up to a maximum of 15 people. It is advised to purchase your ticket online beforehand. That way you are sure to have a spot. In collaboration with SAMSUNG