A young teenager, who sleeps irregularly and has no sense of time and no one to communicate to except his dog, who lives in his own created world losing touch with reality. As one day he takes his dog on walk he feels a bit strange but he nudges it off and continues his walk with his dog and later occurs a tragedy which awakens him to reality.
Noticing that the lines between the virtual world and reality are beginning to blur, a woman phones a support hotline.
When two nerds crack the code too the ultimate virtual reality experience, things go awry when a single lightning strike gives the game a bit more reality than intended.
The power of an unbreakable bond between a mother and her daughter during the Holocaust. Her heartbreaking separation from her mother, her escape with help from the French Resistance in Paris, and her vivid memories of the D-Day bombings.
Enter the world of Australia’s largest remaining cool temperate rainforest: Tasmania’s Tarkine. Delve into the wild windswept beaches, extensive buttongrass plains and pristine wild rivers. This VR experience will take your breath away.
An altruistic grandmother has to push her grandson and his family to leave home and escape war.
This video shows results from a research project involving simulated Darwinian evolutions of virtual block creatures. A population of several hundred creatures is created within a supercomputer, and each creature is tested for their ability to perform a given task, such the ability to swim in a simulated water environment. Those that are most successful survive, and their virtual genes containing coded instructions for their growth, are copied, combined, and mutated to make offspring for a new population. The new creatures are again tested, and some may be improvements on their parents. As this cycle of variation and selection continues, creatures with more and more successful behaviors can emerge.
A man who lives a generic lifestyle must confront his way of life as it starts to deteriorate around him.
Narrated by award-winning actor and dancer David Gulpilil, Carriberrie guides audiences across a stunning array of iconic Australian locations and performances, from the traditional to contemporary. From ceremonial creation dances in the heart of the Outback, to honey gathering songs in the rain-forest, bush-punk band The Lonely Boys performing in Alice Springs and a finale featuring Ban-garra Dance Theatre by Sydney Harbour, Carriberrie brings together art, technology and Indigenous performance in inspired new ways.
A journey through the private lives of five strangers in Hong Kong. A VR film about finding intimacy in a city of density.
Cao Fei recorded her experiences within the online social platform Second Life. The result is a wistful, surreal vision of an alternative reality sprung from the pop culture fantasies and hyper-consumerism of contemporary urban China, while also trying to transcend its real-life limitations. It can be seen as an answer to the challenge posed by River Elegy: how to envision a new Chinese destiny founded on principles of individuality, creativity, discovery, and freedom. The film also reflects the contemporary condition of the virtual supplanting our experience of the real.
Unlocking memories of institutional ‘care’. Parragirls Past, Present is a deeply moving immersive experience, presenting former residents’ visions of the Parramatta Girls Home today.
Toronto’s town square is flooded. The city’s infrastructure has merged with local flora. In this radically different future, people have found a connection to the past.
This single-channel video explores the effects of technology and information overload on the contemporary psyche. Set in a virtual tech-noir urban space populated by strange hybrids of non-humans and augmented people, part of the expansive, fractured narrative focuses on the continued adventures of Xanax Girl and her search for her companion—a hybrid dog/seal with the head of a boy—who has been abducted. The film, which arose from the artist’s daily practice of animating his dreams using hobbyist 3D software, weaves together deep-web imagery with hardboiled detective story tropes and repressed libidinal fantasies to create a nightmarish vision of an internet addict’s unconscious. The film features an original score by Oneohtrix Point Never and James Ferraro.
In a futuristic city, a man and his girlfriend break into an abandoned hi-tech game park.
A kite with the spirit of a playful puppy tangles with a pompous dragon-kite in a short that brings the audience into a breathtaking world.
Heesu is terminally ill, and as Jihyun spends his last days with her he reminds her of their life and love together, and of their hopes and dreams for each other.
Life is a breath, a breath that while it is with us, always blows us around, allows us to do everything we do, live what we live.
When a religious radio programmer Jonathon goes back to his father's village for sell of his properties for live with a woman who living in Georgia, he realizes all human being killed by a primative cannibal, long time ago in the street named COLDWATER... ...a universe far from reality and ethics, and zero is equal to one.
Borrowing from an anthropological study initiated through the University of California in 1969, The Taste of The Name is a fantasia on universality. As a parallel to the elusive “umami” and its gradual scientific acceptance as a primary taste, we consider what is perceivable, knowable, and namable. Through the blue spectrum of various hermetic artifices, we are fed fables of Jules Verne's Nautilus and resurface in a virtual tanning bed, turning over in a slippery navigation of language.