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PHI Event Horizons VR COVER — Photo: Adil Boukind

June 30 → March 5, 2023 Horizons VR

Experience
Immersion
Storytelling

PHI Centre Galerie 2
315 Saint-Paul St West
Montreal, Quebec, H2Y 2A3

Monday and Tuesday:
Closed

Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday:
11 am to 7 pm (last group enters at 5 pm)

Friday and Saturday:
10 am to 8 pm (last group enters at 6 pm)

Duration: 2 hours

13 years old +

Wednesday and Thursday: $24-$30
Friday to Sunday: $28-$32

Taxes and fees not included

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A special selection of award-winning VR works that will draw you into four distinct worlds sharing unique and powerful stories.

PHI Event Centre Horizons VR IMG1 credit Adil Boukind

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

Marco & Polo Go Round

Kusunda

Reeducated

GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY

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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

Voice:
Tilda Swinton

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

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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

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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

Re- educated

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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