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PHI Centre
Space C
315 Saint-Paul St West
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2M3
Monday, Wednesday and Sunday:
10 am to 8 pm
Thursday, Friday and Saturday:
10 am to 10 pm
Closed on Tuesdays
13 years old +
Horizons VR is included in the admission price for Pathway 3: Horizons VR.
A special selection of award-winning VR works that will draw you into four distinct worlds sharing unique and powerful stories.
FOUR AWARD-WINNING WORKS
Through inventive methods and innovative narrative forms, these award-winning works deliver artistically ambitious VR experiences that draw us into their nuanced storyworlds. The unique approaches of these four VR pieces are testimony to how the medium has gone beyond our simple fascination with the technology and how it’s now being used to experiment and explore new storytelling possibilities—challenging the medium itself. Their subject matter ranges from interpersonal relationships, culture, memory, neurodiversity, and stories of political and social urgency.
GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY

Goliath: Playing with Reality follows the true story of a man with a troubled upbringing who loses his parents and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. He is taken into a psychiatric hospital where he spends several years on strong medication, mostly in isolation.
Directed by Barry Gene Murphy & May Abdalla
Country: United Kingdom, France
25 minutes | English
2021
• Official Selection - Venice VR Expanded, Venice Biennale, 2021
• Grand Jury Prize - Venice International Film Festival
• Special Mention - FNC EXPLORE, Festival du nouveau cinéma
• Interactive Award - Adelaide Fringe Festival, 2022
• Jury Distinction - Annecy International Animated Film Festival
Director & Writer:
Barry Gene Murphy
Director, Writer & Executive Producer:
May Abdalla
Interactive Design & Development Lead:
Michael Golembewski
Lead Producer:
Anetta Jones
Technical Director:
Alexandra Adderley
Writer & Script Consultant:
Oliver Bancroft
Executive Producers:
Kirsty Jennings
Rebecca Frankel
Mark Ordesky
Liz Rosenthal
Executive Producers, Oculus:
Amy Seidenwurm
Yelena Rachitsky
Co-Producer, Floréal Films:
Katayoun Dibamehr
Avi Amar
MARCO & POLO GO ROUND

Marco & Polo Go Round is a love story with a surreal twist. As they face difficulties in their relationship, Marco and Polo see the force of gravity reverse, and their whole world literally falls apart around them.
Directed by Benjamin Steiger Levine
Country: Canada, Belgium
13 minutes | French and English
2021
• VR Golden Fireball Award - Kaoshiung XR Dreamland, 2021
• Most Innovative 6DOF - FNC EXPLORE, 2021
• Best XR Creative Concept - Stereopsia EUROPE, 2021
• Best VR Short Film Award - 360VR Festival, 2021
• Best Visual Storytelling in Virtual Reality - GIFFMX, 2021
• Gold, Content and Storytelling & Silver, Virtual Reality - Idéa, 2022
Director:
Benjamin Steiger Levine
Writers:
Gregory Kaufman
Benjamin Steiger Levine
Production Companies:
Item 7
Belga Productions
Producers:
Audrey Pacart
Paul-E. Audet
Pierre Even
Alain-Gilles Viellevoye
Studio:
DPT
Kusunda is a voice driven VR narrative about the dormant Kusunda language in Nepal. Co-created by shaman Lil Bahadur and his granddaughter Hima, the intergenerational story invites you to support the revitalization of their mother tongue.
Directed by Felix Gaedtke & Gayatri Parameswaran
Country: Germany, Nepal, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan
23 minutes | Nepali, Kusunda, English subtitles
2021
• Storyscapes Award - Tribeca Film Festival, 2021
• Best Documentary Experience - Raindance Immersive, 2021
• Best Heritage Experience - Crystal Owl Awards, 2021
A NowHere Media Production
Directed & Produced by:
Felix Gaedtke
Gayatri Parameswaran
Co-created by:
Gyani Maiya Kusunda
Hima Kusunda
Lil Bahadur Kusunda
Co-produced by:
INVR.space
Fasad
Poke Poke Creative
Reeducated takes viewers inside a “reeducation” camp in Xinjiang, China, guided by the recollections of three men who were caught in what is likely the largest mass-internment drive of ethnic and religious minorities since the Second World War.
Directed by Sam Wolson
Country: USA, Kazakhstan
21 minutes | English
2021
• Excellence in Immersive Storytelling 2021 & Excellence and Innovation, Visual Digital Storytelling - ONA Awards, 2021
• Special Jury Recognition for Immersive Journalism - SXSW Film Festival, 2021
• VRHAMMY Grand Prize - VRHAM! Festival, 2021
• Special Jury Prize - New Images Festival, 2021
Director:
Sam Wolson
Artist:
Matt Huynh
Research & Reporting:
Ben Mauk
Executive Producers:
Soo-Jeong Kang
Monica Racic
Lead Animator & Technical Supervisor:
Nicholas Rubin






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