We Are Dead Animals
Bring animals back to life in the virtual paradise created by Tote Tiere Maarten—from a deer shot by hunters to a hedgehog run over by a car. A collectible album of animal cards, with a twist.
DocLab: VR Booth
Description
Experience one free VR project of your choice in the DocLab Exhibition. Access to this booth is subject to availability. Want to secure your spot and see more? Then purchase a ticket for the VR Gallery.
A total of seven different experiences are available. Ranging from a frontline view of journalists in Gaza (Under the Same Sky) to a hallucinatory quest for identity in a world where technology surpasses humanity in Feedback, un musical antifuturista. In We Are Dead Animals, 'animation' becomes eerily literal, as dead animals are brought back to life. In Lesbian Simulator, we can step into a candy-colored simulation and 'experience' (tongue-in-cheek) a series of formative moments in a queer life.
And as part of DocLab Spotlight, not in competition: the absurd madness of our times embodied in Exploding Girl VR; the haunting search for connection in Another Place; and the intimate portrait of memory and love in A Long Goodbye.
A total of seven different experiences are available. Ranging from a frontline view of journalists in Gaza (Under the Same Sky) to a hallucinatory quest for identity in a world where technology surpasses humanity in Feedback, un musical antifuturista. In We Are Dead Animals, 'animation' becomes eerily literal, as dead animals are brought back to life. In Lesbian Simulator, we can step into a candy-colored simulation and 'experience' (tongue-in-cheek) a series of formative moments in a queer life.
And as part of DocLab Spotlight, not in competition: the absurd madness of our times embodied in Exploding Girl VR; the haunting search for connection in Another Place; and the intimate portrait of memory and love in A Long Goodbye.
Composition
Lesbian Simulator
Create your lesbian avatar, go on your first date and visit your first rave. But also: come out of the closet and face harassment and public disapproval. This cartoonish VR game puts everyone in the situations you can encounter as a lesbian woman. Current Future: Age suggestion 14+
Under the Same Sky
In this 360° VR documentary about the war in Gaza, the camera, mounted on a long pole, shows the horrors of Israeli occupation through the eyes of Palestinian journalists.
Feedback VR, un musical antifuturista
A VR musical in which you drink a mystical beverage and then travel through multiple digital and physical dimensions. Three figures, inspired by Andean futurism, guide you through a ritual that examines tradition, identity, and technology.
The Exploding Girl VR
An embodiment of her generation, Candice explodes daily—bloodily—under pressure from depression, anxiety, and rage. Searching for an escape from loneliness in an indifferent world, she navigates her way through soulless sex and psychedelic violence.
Another Place
A ghost story told from the first-person perspective of a trans woman seeking asylum in Paris. A VR experience about alienation, missing home, and searching for connection in an unfathomable world.
A Long Goodbye
72-year-old Ida, who lives with dementia, navigates her way through the day with the help of cassette tapes recorded by her husband and Post-it notes left throughout the house. In this tender VR experience, we get to know her as she rediscovers herself.
IDFA DocLab Program & Competition
IDFA DocLab: Off the Internet explores the paradox of our time: the growing desire to disconnect, the impossibility of ever truly logging off, and the inherent privilege of stepping offline. With Off the Internet, DocLab turns to interactive and immersive art in search of new forms of presence and connection.
