IDFA DocLab Spotlight

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    These projects are selected for the non-competitive IDFA DocLab Spotlight section, including interactive and immersive highlights, full dome experiences, and motion capture stages.

    Selected for IDFA DocLab Spotlight

    Grandma’s House

    • David Gardener
    • 2022

      A 360° guided tour of grandma’s house gets further and further off track, with the image tilting and the voice-over stuck on repeat. This is what it must be like to tumble down into the bottomless pit of dementia.

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      Horizon

      • Joeri Heegstra
      • 2022

        In a unique one-to-one performance, you talk to a young person about the climate crisis and dreams for the future. The new generation has burning questions and is urgently searching for new hope.

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        The Man Who Couldn’t Leave

        • Singing CHEN
        • 2022

          This VR piece puts the viewer inside the penal colony where Taiwan imprisoned political prisoners in 1949. The now elderly A-Keun talks about hunger, boredom, the sense of time and his comrade who died in prison.

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          New Update Available – Version 2.1

          • Jeroen van Loon
          • 2022

            Take a seat at the weekly computer hour for the elderly, where course leader Robert will help you find your way in the digital world. This funny and moving VR experience enables you to understand digital illiteracy among the elderly from the inside.

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            Okawari

            • Landia Egal, Amaury Laburthe
            • 2022

              Welcome to Okawari restaurant! Sit down at a real table for a virtual meal. Place your order for more sushi, another bowl of ramen and yet another bottle of sake. But is this seemingly inexhaustible supply of culinary delights as infinite as it seems?

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              ONX + IDFA DocLab MoCap Stage

              • ONX Studio
              • 2022

                ONX and IDFA DocLab are collaborating for the first time to present a motion capture stage at the festival. Live performances and workshops invite audiences and professionals to explore the artistic potential of mocap technology for documentary art.

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                Partita for 8 Voices

                • Michel Lam
                • 2022

                  Eight incomparable singers explore the far reaches of the human vocal range. In a 360-degree projection, the score evolves into abstract patterns that draw the viewer in and depict sounds for which we have no words.

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                  A Radical Compromise

                  • Daniel Červenka
                  • 2021

                    The effect of our hunger for fossil fuels on the environment becomes palpable in this 360-degree immersion into a Czech brown coal mine. The traces of destructive human activity are revealed from microscopic scale to all-encompassing.

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                    Swarm

                    • Maarten Isaäk de Heer
                    • 2022

                      We fly with the migratory birds of the future, which due to climate change will be forced to travel longer distances until they fall exhausted from the sky. On the ground, humans leave their final traces in a post-apocalyptic landscape.

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