We love and we hate it. We, producers are disappointed with lack of market. Financial uncertainty is killing us. Patience is our salvation. We, architects are happy we can use our full potential of spatial design. We, filmmakers adore this new medium. It gives us opportunity to create new worlds — much more immersive than flat screen. We couldn’t talk to our audience so intimately before. VR Horizons Programme showcases animation artworks created by pioneers of new language of film. This is the language of spatial and immersive storytelling. (2019)
12 min / 2018 / Adventure / USA
It is a story of William Avery, an old sailor adrift and alone in the North Atlantic. When Avery reluctantly rescues Lara, who has mysteriously fallen overboard, he finds redemption and hope in his darkest hours.
Director: John Kahrs Writer: Blaise Hemingway, Jonathan Igla, John Kahrs Producer: Karen Dufilho-Rosen, David Eisenmann Production: Chromosphere, Google Spotlight Stories
2 min 10 s / 2018 / Adventure / USA
A charming illusionist, an adventurous queen of hearts and an evil green man journey through early cinema, film magic and love. Back to the Moon is an animated, interactive Doodle celebrating the artistry of film director and magician Georges Méliès.
Directors: Fx Goby, Hélène Leroux Production: Nexus Studios, Google Arts and Culture, Google Doodles, Google Spotlight Stories
2015 / USA
CLOUDS is an interactive VR documentary and a portrait of this community of digital pioneers, explored through the lens of code. The project asks questions about the future of creativity at a time when algorithms play an important role in shaping culture.
Directors: Jonathan Minard, James George Producer: Winslow Porter
2018 / Adventure
Coco VR is more of a playful experience, letting VR users meet up and explore the land of the dead together.
Director: Ross Haldane Stevenson Producer: Marc Sondheimer, Kelsey Wong Production: Pixar, Magnopus, Oculus
2018 / History / Lithuania
“Code of Freedom 1991” is a 10-minute virtual reality experience, in which a user enters the bloodshed at Vilnius TV tower on January 13th, 1991 as a journalist with a camera, and has to make the toughest decisions of conflict journalism – to either film and make evidence of the Soviet army’s aggression, or to help wounded, peaceful protesters. “Code of Freedom 1991” is an experience based on the real events that happened on January 13th, 1991 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Director: Andrius Lekavičius Writer: Andrius Lekavičius Producer: Bartoš Polonski Production: Gluk Media, 360 laipsnių filmai
2018 / History / USA
“I Am A Man” VR Experience is an interactive virtual reality experience set to the historic events of the African- American Civil Rights Movement. Users will witness the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Worker’s Strike and the events leading to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. using the Oculus Rift VR headset. The VR project won an award for funding through the Oculus Launch Pad program.
Director: Derek Ham Writer: Derek Ham
10 min / 2018 / Germany
MindPalace is an animated real-time VR experience that revolves around the idea of what could happen, if you could look inside the mind of your loved one. Not just as a visitor, though, but dissolving into their perception entirely. All their truths lying bare for you to see. Uninhibited and uncontrollable.
Directors: Carl Krause, Dominik Stockhausen Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Malte Stehr
2018 / Lithuania
It's a meditative VR animation which invites the viewer to explore a mysterious afterlife world based on Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis’ paintings and music, observing and interacting with the surrounding during visually stunning day-night cycles. Starting a journey as a human being, the viewer soon realizes that he is an angel who contemplates the states of life, death and merging with the universe.
Director Kristina Buožytė Producer: Vitalijus Žukas Production: Okta, Natrix natrix, Asterman