The Collider: Chapter One
Synopsis
Each participant enters separately but, soon, their journeys converge. One enters a virtual world revealing the inner vision of the machine, the other can manipulate the visions and actions of that virtual world. The experience culminates in an unmediated encounter where the pair work out, together, what has happened.
The Collider builds the real choreography of going in and out of VR with another person in the room into a theatrical experience which creates its own spectacle – a dance between two limited humans failing and failing again to see the other’s experience and then, finally, the rush of connection when they do.
From #metoo to Kavanaugh, Brexit to Brazil - The Collider moves from the political to the personal to ask: what do you do with power when you've got it?
Official Selection IDFA 2018 - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2018
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 35 min
- Format
- VR theatrical / immersive installation
- Director
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Anagram (Amy Rose, May Abdalla)
- Producer
- Anagram (Amy Rose, May Abdalla)
- Production Designer
- Synnove Fredericks
- Sound
- Aaron Cupples, Brigitte Hart
- Composer
- Aaron Cupples, Brigitte Hart
- Developers
- Clarice Hilton, Mike Golembewski
- Animation, Technical Artist
- Barry Gene Murphy
- Interactive Set Assistant
- Pete Bennett
- Interaction Designer
- Mike Golembewski
Genre
Production Status
Production Company
Anagram
Amy RoseMay Abdalla
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