VR film's programme  

The programme will take place 24 September – 3 October at Film & Media Space "Planeta" (A. Goštauto g. 2, Vilnius).

After the Fallout

Dir Sam Wolson, Dominic Nahr
USA \ 2019 \ 15 min.

This cinema experience evokes the reality and emotional gravity of life in Fukushima, ten years after the 2011 nuclear disaster. It is an immersive mosaic that takes us through surreal environments in the exclusion zone, relives the struggle of the heroes who worked to prevent the meltdown, and explores the lives of families as they navigate a new world which they have had to adapt to.

Havfolket Kalder Morknet Vand

Dir Vibeke Bryld
Denmark \ 2020 \ 10 min.

It is a Virtual Reality experience rooted in the Northern myths of the merpeople, who lured sailors and longing souls to sea. The world around dissolves as you hear the calling from the sea, and you are submerged in a suggestive underwater world, where the distinction between reality and imagination, man and nature, disappears.

Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in VR

Dir Ainslee Robson
USA, Ethiopia \ 2020 \ 9 min.

In this autobiographical VR, carried along by nostalgic Ethiopian tezeta music, the user drifts through Ethiopian American director Ainslee Robson’s personal memories of both Cleveland and Addis Ababa. Floating through the pointillist reconstructions, which form, deform, and disappear, thus merging seamlessly one into another, we experience the fragmentation, elusiveness, and fluidity of both memory and Robson’s mixed-race identity.

Orbital Vanitas

Dir Shaun Gladwell
Australia \ 2016 \ 5 min.

“Orbital Vanitas” is an unreal sci-fi mystery meditation that brings you to the centre of Earth. Magnificently poetic images revolve around a human-inhabited planet and its orbit while placing the spectator above the earth.