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Silent Disco

Fabio THIEME|Germany|2025|52min |XR Performances |English, German

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Synopsis

Silent Disco is a technically and artistically pioneering VR-project in which the audience is sent to three different virtual dance floors. In collective isolation they experience a folklore dance of death, a techno party in the elevator to hell and a surreal strip club in the tension between virtual and physical ecstasy facing their own mortality.
All films are shot in an innovative combination of stereo- and monoscopic footage. The project should be viewed in one room simultaneously with other spectators. The audience can choose when to watch which movie and in which order. The viewer can also feel free to stay in the room and watch the other viewers. Everybody will seem to be alone in their own virtual trip, but physically participate in the same party. Through the gaze of the others, the spectators always become actors, participants in a performance. Here the zeitgeist expresses itself playfully in the poetic and absurd imagery of the dancing VR-glasses wearers.

Director

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Fabio THIEME

Fabio Thieme is an auteur filmmaker and director for film and theater. He completed studies in Rome and Berlin and is now studying directing at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts Berlin. His films, which he also produced himself with his film production Serkalo, received awards at international film festivals. His work often deals with pretense, imitation and forgery as an act of creation.

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Executive Producer
Fabio THIEME
Producer
Fabio THIEME, Jakob SCHLEITER
Screenwriter
Johannes SCHMILLING
Writer
Fabio THIEME
Cinematographer
Johannes SCHMÜLLING
Editor
Fabio THIEME
Cast
Hanna DEMIDOVA (Cast), Lilith FRANZ (Dancer / Club Guest [SR]), Famil AGHAKISHIYEV (Club Guest [BP]), Lena FREITAG (Club Guest [BP]), Daria SACHLI (Club Guest [BP]), Tim WINTER (Club Guest [BP])
CGI & VFX etc.
3D Modeler: Benjamin LARSIMONT
Production Designer
Johannes SCHMILLING
Sound & Music
Sound: Julia TANNENBERG
Composer: Mona SCHLATTER
Other
Gaffer: Fabio THIEME
Colorist: Fabio THIEME
Dramaturge: Johannes SCHMILLING
Costume Designer: Jakob SCHLEITER, Pertti HAGELSTEIN
Makeup Artist: Johannes SCHMILLING, David HESSE, Aljoscha DAKIC
Production Manager: Silvia SOUSA
1st Camera Assistant: Esther GRUNE
Still Photographer: Yannick PERNOT, Istvan HOLLÉS
Light Board Operator: Meike GRÜNE, Teresa MARAKOVA
Lighting Technician: Pia HENKEL
1st Assistant Director: Sulamita WIENER
Production Design Assistant: Helena KÖPPEN
Costume Assistant: Bodo GOTTSCHALK
Production Assistant: Mayar ARATTIA
Set Manager Assistant: Rosalie MULLER, Stefan FRÖHLICH
Choreographer: Hannah SHERIDAN
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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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The running time of each work varies from 15 to 90 minutes. Please refer to the website for the running times of the works you wish to view. Viewing all the content may require a week-long visit. To avoid discomfort or motion sickness, it is recommended to take sufficient breaks between viewings.