XR competition
Battlefield
François Vautier
France, Belgium, Luxembourg / 2024 / Fiction / 22’00”
Available version : FR
“They called me to the 3rd North Trench. Gotta fix a phone line. Hurry up! It’s blowing up everywhere. Can’t hear much anyway. Ears got blasted by a shell. This war’s a curse. I’m 20 and don’t even have a rifle.” The soil carries all of mankind’s memories within it. In 1916, the fields of Verdun were the theatre of unprecedented barbarism. Amidst all this, a soldier named Julien lives through these dark times, abandoning any chance of youth and happiness. He, and the nature that surrounds him, are forever united in a common fate.
The Elephant I Found Under My Skin
Shaool Levy, Daniel Sweed
Israël / 2023 / Animation / 09’46”
No dialogue
When Gali goes for her first breast ultrasound, she feels uncomfortable. She detaches herself from her breast, hoping to escape the exam. To her surprise, she and her breasts are swallowed into a fantasy world.
Spots of light
Adam Weingrod
Israel, Canada / 2023 / Documentary / 14’00”
Available version : ENGL
Dan Layan lost his sight during an Israeli military intervention in Lebanon in 1982. Despite this ordeal, Dan has fought to continue living normally and met the love of his life, with whom he has had four children. After 25 years in the dark, an experimental surgical procedure brings him the miraculous opportunity of recovering his sight. This virtual reality experience uses personal archives and 3D re-enactments to allow you to relive this introspective journey.
Oto’s planet
Gwenael François
Luxembourg, Canada, France / 2024 / Animated fiction / 28’00”
Available versions : FR / ENGL
From 12 years old
Oto’s Planet follows the peaceful life of Oto, who loves nothing more than lounging in his hammock and enjoying the fruits of the single tree on his tiny planet. His tranquility is shattered when Exo, a hyperactive and cumbersome cosmonaut, crash-lands in a small spacecraft. The ensuing attempts at cohabitation are fraught with difficulty.
Ito Meikyū
Boris Labbé
France, Luxembourg / 2024 / Experimental / 15’00”
No dialogue
Interior and exterior, transparency and opacity, exhibitionism and voyeurism, feminine and masculine; all these notions oppose or unite in the infinite cycle of a labyrinth with no exit. Life here is like a loom whose living weft is woven from a myriad of branching threads and paths.
In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats
Darren Emerson
United Kingdom, England / 2023 / Experimental documentary / 45’00”
Available version : ENGL
A euphoric interactive virtual reality adventure taking audiences back to the heyday of the UK’s illegal Acid House scene of the late 1980s. Grab your friends and go in search of an illegal rave set over one night in Coventry, UK in 1989. Immerse yourself in the stories of promoters, police officers, and rave-goers, whose rivalries and relationships drove a working-class revolution in music and society.
XR panorama
8 Billion Selves
Tibor de Jong
Netherlands / 2024 / Experimental animation / 22’27”
No dialogue
Warning: some images may shock
There are 8 billion people living on Earth now. 8 BILLION SELVES takes the scenic route across this planet. In the shoes of an observing visitor, we travel through the world where 8 billion people are born, work, wage war, love, dance, create art, and die.
The eye and I
Jean-Michel Jarre, Hsin-Chien Huang
France, Taiwan / 2023 / Experimental animation / 30’00”
Available versions : FR / ENGL
Jean-Michel Jarre & Hsin-Chien Huang’s share a fascination for the notion of surveillance and its influence and presence throughout the ages. This immersive work invites you on a journey through the evolution of surveillance, from religious supervision to today’s digital omnipresence and control, in art, family, politics, social organisation and technology.
Mamie Lou
Isabelle Andreani
France, Luxembourg / 2024 / Animation / 30’00”
Available versions : FR / ENGL
This VR animated film invites viewers to play the role of a spirit accompanying a grandmother in her final moments. A fantastic journey through the Tree of Life, between the hospital and colourful memories.
MLK: Now Is the Time
Limbert Fabian
Unites States / 2023 / Experimental animation / 17’00”
Available version : ENGL
It’s been sixty years since Dr. Martin Luther King delivered his iconic “I have a dream” speech, but the messages from that speech resonate today. This immersive journey explores key themes of Dr. King’s speech and highlights systemic inequities that persist in our society. Through first-person stories and interactions, it drops the viewer into a thoroughly modern interpretation of a contemporary March on Washington that will inform and inspire a new generation of activists.
Jack & Flo
Amaury Campion
France / 2024 / Animated fiction / 14’00”
No dialogue
From 10 years old
Jack, a former lighthouse keeper in his prime, lives isolated on his cliff-island lost in the middle of the ocean. He lives a peaceful existence at the top of the island, surrounded by his house, the lighthouse and a small tree. It seems that Jack is the last human being. While fishing from the top of the cliff, he accidentally encounters a great white pelican stranded on his island. A story of friendship begins between the two.
Notes on blindness
Peter Middleton, James Spinney, Arnaud Colinart, Amaury Laburthe
France, United Kingdom / 2016 / Documentaire / 25’00”
Available versions : FR / ENGL / NDL
In 1983, John Hull, an English theology professor and writer, lost his sight. To help him understand and come to terms with this upheaval, he kept a diary of audio cassette recordings for three years. This unique account immerses users in the cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.
XR space
Salle Gripel, 3rd floor
Maison de la culture
71 boulevard François-Mitterrand
63000 Clermont-Ferrand
Saturday 1 February: 14:00 – 18:00
Sunday 2 to Friday 7 February: 10:00 – 18:00
Saturday 8 February: 10:00 – 15:00
On presentation of a festival ticket or accreditation
1 festival ticket = 2 films under 17 mins or 1 film over 22 mins
Accredited: free, on presentation of accreditation