The Anticipation of Rain
Using animated brush strokes in a 3D environment, a soundscape and scents, Naima Karim brings the tropical thunderstorm to life. Climate change has made the once-romantic monsoon into a life-threatening phenomenon.
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VR Gallery
The DocLab: VR Gallery is located in De Brakke Grond. Each ticket gives you a 50-minute time slot to watch the VR projects of your choice. If you want to see the entire selection, you would need 3 timeslots. Check out what's on offer below.
Projects in the VR Gallery
Projects in the VR Gallery
Ihyangjeong: Carving with Memories
For animator Sunghwan Lee, the South Korean housing market offers little opportunity to find a real home—one like his father’s childhood house, packed with memories. A virtuoso animated journey through time and space.
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Kristine Is Not Well
In this interactive VR simulation you try to stay a step ahead of censorship on a fictitious online platform, with critical posts about the sudden disappearance of influencer Kristine. Based on real anti-censorship techniques used by online activists.
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The Man Who Couldn’t Leave
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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Missing 10 Hours VR
Watch passively, go along with what’s happening, or intervene? In this interactive VR production, the viewer’s choices determine whether a night out ends in date rape or the safe return home of the girl whose drink is spiked with GHB.
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Plastisapiens
Leave behind your worries about the future—Plastisapiens takes you on a playful and soothing VR journey where organic beings and plastics become one.
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