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Perennials

Zoe ROELLIN|USA|2023|17min |6DoF |G |English

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  • This work was invited with the support of SWISS FILMS

Viewing Information

Date
July 5 (FRI) ~ July 14 (SUN)

Venue
Bucheon Art Bunker B39
2F ELECTRIC CABINET

Synopsis

After the death of his estranged father, Elias returns to his family’s abandoned vacation home to take stock of what’s left behind. Torn between grief, resentment, and nostalgia, and wholly unwilling to confront any of those emotions, Elias wants nothing more than to be done with the place. His little niece, Emi, who’s accompanying him, has designs of her own, a hunger for adventure, and a task she’s determined to carry out.

Director

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Zoe ROELLIN

Zoe Roellin is a Swiss freelance VR artist & animator based in Zurich and work with immersive drawing tools to bring stories to life in VR. I’ve worked on a variety of VR pieces in collaboration with clients such as Meta and Atlantic Productions, and am also teaching VR art and storytelling as a guest lecturer at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, from which I graduated in 2019. My directorial debut, Perennials (2023), premiered 2023 at the Venice International Film Festival.

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Producer
Ryan Genji Thomas, FUJITA Goro
Screenwriter
Zoe ROELLIN
Sound Designer
Dren McDonald, Khris BROWN, Chris HANSON
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