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Date
November 29 (FRI) ~ December 8 (SUN), 10:00~17:00
*Colsed on December 2 (MON)

Venue
Bucheon Art Bunker B39
2F Electric Cabinet

Dream Builders: The Cenotaph for Newton

Arnaud DESJARDINS|France|2022|8min |6DoF |G |French, English

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Date
November 29 (FRI) ~ December 8 (SUN), 10:00~17:00
*Colsed on December 2 (MON)

Venue
Bucheon Art Bunker B39
2F Electric Cabinet

Synopsis

A garden surrounded by mist...A gigantic, monumental dome slowly appears before our eyes.The sphere that emerges before us is called the Cenotaph for Isaac Newton and was never built. History is full of monuments that were never built. Because of their technical audacity, because of their madness, because the course of history swept them away, these buildings remained as drawings on paper. They are called 'paper architectures'. Dream Builders is a VR documentary and a poetic journey into the heart of these architectural utopias. Thanks to VR the viewer will discover the inside and outside of this monument on a real life scale allowing him to reach the core of the utopia living in this dream building.
This VR movie is dedicated to Newton’s Cenotaph, drawn by the French artist Étienne-Louis Boullée in 1784. Designed on the eve of the French Revolution, this spectacular and gigantic funerary monument dedicated to the famous English scientist Isaac Newton is both an allegory of the Earth and the Cosmos, but above all a powerful and masterful tribute to science and to the philosophy of the Enlightenment.

Director

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Arnaud DESJARDINS

Arnaud, a Paris-based art director and filmmaker, graduated from ENSAAMA and Gobelins. He co-founded Femme Fatale Studio in 2016 to create immersive, interactive experiences for cultural institutions like the Louvre and the French Ministry of Culture. With expertise across art and engineering, Arnaud bridges creativity and technical precision. Alongside studio work, he writes and produces his own narrative projects, exploring new forms of immersive storytelling, including Virtual Reality.

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Credits

Executive Producer
Femme Fatale Studio
Producer
Thibault JORGE
Screenwriter
Emilie VALENTIN, Arnaud DESJARDINS
Technical Director
Michel PENEAU, Doug RAND
2D/3D Animanition
Sarah ALBINI, Arnaud DESJARDINS
Sound & Music
Aurélien FERRY
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