Alternate Realities Programme
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A Colônia Luxemburguesa
In this interactive web documentary, Luxembourg-Brazilian maker Dominique Santana asks whether the movement of hundreds of Luxembourgish migrants to Brazil 100 years ago was a success story.

  • Dominique Santana / Samsa Film / C2DH
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Interactive
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A South Asian Queer Pamphlet
An interactive web installation in which each participant creates a unique experience based on letters chosen from a theory-linked queer alphabet.
  • Soumya Mukhopadhyay / Cherrypix Movies
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Installation
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Alternate Realities Exhibition
The Alternate Realities exhibition showcases innovative non-fiction and immersive documentary in all forms. Taking place at Site Gallery, the exhibition is free and open to all throughout the festival dates.
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Exhibition
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Antipsychotic
This non-linear, interactive docu-music album aims to help destigmatize mental illness by allowing the user to journey through the mind of an individual with bipolar disorder.
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Interactive Documentary
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Behind the Dish
A 3-part VR documentary series following three of the world’s top chefs and their journeys to excellence.
  • Chloé Rochereuil / TARGO
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Dancing with Dead Animals
Animation artist Maarten Isaäk de Heer 3D scans and reanimates all the dead creatures encountered over one spring and summer to create a surreal and non-malevolent danse macabre in a 360 dome.
  • Maarten Isaäk de Heer / Menetekel Film
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Installation
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Galup VR Experience
Aboriginal Elder Doolann-Leisha Eatts presents an oral history about a massacre of Noongar people at Lake Monger, Western Australia, in this 360 documentary.
  • Ian Wilkes, Poppy van Oorde-Grainger
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Kiss/Crash
The installation triptych Kiss/Crash employs AI-generated imagery and representation to explore themes of loneliness, desire and intimacy in the digital age.
  • Adam Cole
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Installation
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Missing Pictures
Missing Pictures is a five-part VR series where acclaimed filmmakers Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Lee Myung-se and Naomi Kawase tell us about the film they didn’t get to make.
  • Clément Deneux
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Mrs Benz
Discover the untold story of Bertha Benz, in her workshop in late 19th-century Germany, and witness the birth of the world's first motorcar.
  • Eloise Singer
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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No Place But Here
This 360 VR documentary presents stories from the residents of Cissie Gool House, a previously disused Cape Town hospital, who live there to avoid being displaced from the area they call home.
  • Dylan Valley, Annie Nisenson
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Surfacing
This virtual reality documentary takes the viewer on an immersive 360° journey through the daily life of mothers and children living in prisons and custodial institutions.
  • Rosa Rossella Schillaci
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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The Great Pyramids
The Great Pyramids uses Unreal Editor for Fortnite to faithfully recreate Giza during the 4th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt within the world's biggest game.
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  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Video Game
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The Man Who Couldn't Leave
Set in Taiwan’s Green Island Prison during the White Terror, The Man Who Couldn’t Leave recounts in 360° victims’ stories from this dark period of recent history.
  • Singing Chen
  • 2022
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Wilderness
Explore the wonders of a forest ecosystem through augmented reality.  
  • Lisa Eder, Andrea Zimmermann, Rico Reitz, Bjoern Jensen
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Augmented Reality
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Within Touching Distance
This tender, one-on-one mixed reality experience combines human touch and virtual reality, where each audience member is gently put to bed.
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
XR Live Performance Installation

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