2024 | France, Taiwan
Poetic, Anthropocene, Experimental |
Multi-user immersive installation in VR |
40-50 min
“A sensory journey through space and time, linking a saturated and unbearable modern world
– Mathieu pradat
to its possible peaceful future where time for dialogue and self-awareness prevail.”
《Encounters》is a multi-user VR interactive immersive experience, uses the concept of the Anthropocene to provide viewers with an overlapping experience about the development of human beings and modern civilization.The whole experience is divided into four chapters: The Crowd, The Birds, The Colossus and The Epilogue. Up to eight people can participate at the same time.
Experiencers can feel the intention of water and experience various interactions with virtual bodies during the process, such as: gesture recognition, voice recording, etc. Through this, we can feel that behind the fruitful achievements of human civilization so far, it also creates various dilemmas and negative situations that need to be faced by society and the natural environment.
Director Mathieu Pradat
Mathieu Pradat is an author and director, trained as an architect d.p.l.g. at ENSA-Paris Malaquais where he graduated with honors in 1999. He inscribes his practice in the growing interaction between virtual and real worlds, seen as a new territory carrying stories and emotions. He explores linear and interactive narrative forms. His projects have been selected and awarded in numerous festivals around the world. He is a laureate of the first edition of La Villa Albertine (2022), the founder of La prairie productions (2010) and a member of the Open Documentary Lab of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mathieu Pradat lives in Marseille.
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FULL CREDIT
- Author & Director：Mathieu Pradat
- Producers：Mathieu Pradat, Anne-Lise Miller, Freddy Koné, Mohamed Marouène, Estela Valdivieso Chen
- Co-producer：Jamie Lin, Jin-Yao Lin
PRODUCTION
- Production Company：La Prairie Productions
- Co-produced by：SoWhen?, Serendipity Films Ltd., Tainan National University of the Arts
DEVELOPMENT
- Lead Developers：Sylvian Hayot, Loïc Vigor
- Developper：Etienne Robbiani, Wajih Ben Belgacem
- Quito & Avignon Workshop Lead Developer ：Andre Berlemont
- Avignon workshop Developper：Thomas Dumonet
- Taiwan XR Residency R&D Team：Fablab Dynamic (Po-Ting Lee, Regina Wang, Jason Huang, Wang Ting Lin)
COMPUTER GRAPHICS
- Artistic Director：Freddy Koné
- Lead CG Artist：Florent Brillet
- CG Artist：Valentin Canaux
- Motion Capture Actor：Axel Beaumont
- Animation from Mocap：Laura Le Goff
SCENOGRAPHY
- On set technical supervision (Quito & Avignon workshop)：Poll Pebe Pueyrredón
- Set design：Emanuel Réveillère
- Graphic composition ：Maëva Longvert
- Transportation: Nicolas Deschamps
SOUND
- Music Composer：Frédéric Verrières
- Sound Director：Jin-Yao Lin
- Sound Designer：Jie-Wen Meng
- Sound System Developer：Yu-Jie Huang
- Early Sound Research: Julien Gerber
MARKETING
- Concept Artist：Florent Brillet, Logesh Shankar
- Early Poster Designer：Marie Ève Roques aka Un p’tit Coquelicot
- Making-ofs ：Poll Pebe Pueyrredón & Mathieu Pradat
- Official Poster Designer：Kang-Che Chiang
- Trailer & BTS Editor：Chien-Yu Lin
2024 VENICE IMMERSIVE SHOWCASE
- Supported by Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA)
- Powered by HTC Vive
- International Publicist：Hazel Wu
- Festival International Coordinator：Yi Chou
- Festival Showcase Operator：Bastien Metay
THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY
- Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC)
- Taiwan Creative Content Agency (TAICCA)
THIS PROJECT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF
- Udla / Alliança Francesa
- Le Grenier à Sel
- VRham!
- Bureau Français à Taïpei
- New Images Film Festival
- Kaohsiung Film Festival
- VR Film Lab