The Guanajuato International Film Festival is a Latin American pioneer in cutting-edge immersive technologies. In its Epicenter section you will have the unparalleled experience of immersing your s...
The Guanajuato International Film Festival is a Latin American pioneer in cutting-edge immersive technologies. In its Epicenter section you will have the unparalleled experience of immersing your senses in a completely different universe. Surprise your eyes in GIFF 25.
FILMS:
Errances
"Errances" is a virtual reality experience that plunges you onto a desertic and fantastical planet. Aboard a futuristic vehicle, become a witness to a majestic landscape gradually degraded by the exploitation of natural resources. The musical and visual journey explores the meaning of our environmental impact, from harmony to desolation. An immersive meditation on our technological choices and their consequences.
Director: Gwenael François
Duration: 4 min
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The Matriarx
The Matriarx is an immersive VR experience taking the heroine and hero into a world where matriarchal structures have endured. It is a parallel world in which people treat each other based on a different set of societal rules. This has its effect on social, economic and the political life. Family and love relationships function differently. How do you perceive yourself in a world that follows different structures? The Matriarx will open the experiencers’ horizons by raising their curiosity and by empowering them. This experience will attract everyone who is curious about societal change.
Director: Julia Bruton
Duration: 15 min
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Floating with Spirits
In this cinematic VR, two little indigenous sisters prepare for the Day of the Dead and recall the ancestral knowledge and mystical cosmogony their shaman grandmother used to share with them, in the misty mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. Their village lies amidst giant Ceiba trees and rivers full of life. Nature breathes and within, preserves the memories of this community. The landscape that surrounds them is full of knowledge.
A shamanic dance ritual opens a portal through which we can discover the secret worlds of 4 spirits of nature and make a new connection with the ancestral Mazatec knowledge. Their vision of the world is beautiful, deep and urgent to be shared in a moment where our society needs to rewire its ways of interacting with nature.
Director: Juanita Onzaga
Duration: 31 min
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Human Violins VR
HUMAN VIOLINS is an interactive VR experience on the power of transformative music in the darkest of times. Inspired by heartbreaking a real fact: during the Holocaust, Jewish people were allowed to choose only one object before departing to the camps and many chose their violin. We follow the fictionalized story of Alma, a violin lover and we are offered the chance to play and take the legacy of her music further.
Director: Ioana Mischie
Duration: 19 min
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SEN
Sen is based on the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. The user is immersed in the traditional Japanese ritual, holding a black Raku tea bowl in the tea house called Tai-an, both national treasures of Japan. In the dimly lit room, the user encounters Sen, the spirit of tea born from the tea cup and unrevealing its relationship with the world as such. It is afraid to learn about the world but gradually finds joy in its existence through interacting with the environment and other similar beings. They find comfort in their connection and interaction and start to think about their relationship with others in a selfcentred way. One day, their peaceful world is suddenly destroyed by an inferno. Having lost everything, Sen falls back into the tea bowl and dissolves into particles wandering in the universe. Like Sen, the users realize they are one with all beings in this world and are whisked back to the tea house Tai-an, where their nonchalant lives begin again.
Director: Keisuke Itoh
Duration: 15 min
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The Lost Time
At the age of 99, Holocaust survivor Margot Friedländer reflects on her past during the Nazi era: Arrest, deportation to Theresienstadt and the desperate search for her family.
Director: Christian Zipfel
Duration: 20 min
