Viewing Information

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

Venue
Bucheon Art Bunker B39
2F CENTRAL CONTROL ROOM

Shadowtime

Sister SYLVESTER, Deniz TORTUM|Netherlands, USA, Turkey|2023|18min |6DoF |G |English

Viewing Information

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

Venue
Bucheon Art Bunker B39
2F CENTRAL CONTROL ROOM

Synopsis

You are in two worlds at the same time. Your body is in the other world, but your heart is in this one. To exist in the virtual world is to have two bodies, four hands, and two hearts. Alma, a mysterious guide to this double world, leads you through questions about the climate crisis, irreconcilable realities, and the virtual as a place to take shelter.

Director

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Sister SYLVESTER

Sister Sylvester (Leeds, 1984) works in performance and new media. She is a resident at ONX Studio; a 2019 MacDowell Fellow; an alumnus of the Public Theater New Works program and CPH:DOX lab. Her most recent film, Our Ark (2021), co-directed with Deniz Tortum, and her most recent performance, The Eagle And the Tortoise (2020) both prem iered at IDFA and toured internationally. She creates installations and art books that become communal reading experiences, and is currently developing a series of work on synthetic biology.
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Deniz TORTUM

Deniz Tortum (Istanbul, 1989) works in film and immersive media. His latest film, Our Ark (2021) (co-directed with Sister Sylvester, 2021), premiered at IDFA and screened internationally; and his feature documentary, Phases of Matter (2020), premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and received the Best Documentary awards at the Istanbul and Antalya Film Festivals. He is currently developing a series of work around geoengineering, spiritism, and the climate crisis.

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Producer
Firat SEZGIN, Ecegül BAYRAM
Screenwriter
Sister SYLVESTER, Deniz TORTUM
Technical Director
Sjoerd van Acker
Sound Designer
Alican CAMCL
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Encountering the Virtual and the Real:

A Beginner's Guide to XR

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Unlike simply watching a screen, XR allows you to step into the story space through VR devices. You may become the protagonist, listen to the protagonist's story as if a friend is narrating, or use controllers to move and guide the story yourself. This freedom to explore and experience the story space is what sets it apart. Discover the new face of cinema, where rapidly advancing technology and art meet and transform.

XR stands for eXtended Reality, encompassing Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR). VR involves wearing a Head Mounted Display (HMD) device to immerse yourself in a completely new 3D digital space. AR overlays digital content onto the real world, easily accessible through smartphones. MR combines VR and AR, recognizing real-world objects and creating a 3D virtual space around them. XR integrates all these technologies, offering increasingly realistic virtual worlds.

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