do {not} touch: VR films & experience
Book a time slot here to discover 9 of this year’s best VR films & experiences inside Tolhuistuin. A ticket provides you with a one-hour slot.
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VR films and experiences
Discover 9 of this year’s best VR films & experiences inside Tolhuistuin. A ticket provides you with a one-hour slot. Choose from a fixed menu or make a personal selection from the best virtual reality films and experiences presented in the do {not} touch program. For those with a headset at home, this selection is available on VIVEPORT from 20 November.
IDFA on Stage is supported by Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and Zabawas Foundation.
IDFA DocLab is supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy of the Netherlands, CLICKNL, Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds, Netherlands Film Fund, Flanders Audiovisual Fund, VIVE, VIVEPORT, and Special Friends+.
DocLab research collaboration partners are MIT Open Documentary Lab, Beeld en Geluid, ARTIS-Planetarium, CreativeXR, Diversion cinema, Het Nieuwe Instituut, POPKRAFT, The Immersive Storytelling Studio (National Theatre), and Tolhuistuin.
Part of VR films and performances
Part of VR films and performances
Agence
Play God in a universe populated by intelligent machines. You can nurture their peaceful coexistence or plunge them into chaos and conflict. The story of evolution in this VR game is never the same twice.
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Azibuye — The Occupation
A thought-provoking, 360-degree view of an overgrown, dilapidated Johannesburg house squatted as a political and artistic statement by two Black artists. Will their attitude change when they find out who owns the house?
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The Book of Distance
Director Randall Okita’s grandfather emigrated from Hiroshima to Canada in 1935. During the Second World War he was sent to an internment camp. This interactive reconstruction of the life of a taciturn man fills in the gaps in history.
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Bridge to Sovietopia
Like an invisible spirit, the user of this VR glides through scientific, industrial, and cultural structures of the former Soviet Union, weathered monuments of a vanished utopia. A memento mori for every worldly power.
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Cabinets of Wonder
In this virtual reality experience you enter three fantasy worlds of children who feel out of place in the real world. Glide along a river in Cameroon, dive underwater with a mermaid, and explore a planet with guinea pigs and a talking machine.
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Corpus Misty
Wandering through a labyrinth of soft shapes, the viewer encounters stories of genderqueers and women who fall outside the norm. This immersive VR documentary shows that there is more that connects us than divides us.
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Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in VR
During a VR flight through Ethiopian-American director Ainslee Robson’s memories of Cleveland and Addis Ababa in pointillist form, cultural dislocation and the elusiveness of her mixed-race identity become palpable.
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Missing Pictures: Birds of Prey
Award-winning director Abel Ferrara talks about his never-completed film project from 1980, Birds of Prey. Like the VR user, he is surrounded by that film’s vision of a dystopian New York, where a revolutionary uprising leads to urban warfare.
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Under the Skin
You find yourself ducking bullets in this immersive documentary about life in one of Rio de Janeiro’s most violent favelas. Although it’s a brutal place, the neighborhood also has resilient residents who keep working for a better life.
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