AFA goes to: vr; celine deamen

Together with a transdisciplinary team of artists, director Celine Daemen created a VR world to explore our fleeting relationship with transient reality. As you move through the poetic landscape with VR glasses, you ask yourself: am I part of this world or just looking at it? Are we our bodies or do we merely possess them? As in a dream, one event leads you to another. You follow your own 3D character through narrow alleys, get on the metro and meet a preaching choir parading aimlessly through the streets. In Songs for a Passerby, leave reality behind for a moment and get a new musical dreamscape in its place. Sounds like a tempting offer. Deal?

Celine Daemen’s productions are at the intersection of (music)theatre, visual arts and immersive media. After graduating from the Toneelacademie Maastricht, she made several productions in which immersion in both music and a virtual environment is the common thread. Songs for a Passerby originated from the inspiring, transdisciplinary collaboration between director Celine Daemen, VR art director Aron Fels, sound and music composer Asa Horvitz and librettist Olivier Herter, weaving together their poetic imagery and technologies, haunting sounds and melodies, and incantatory texts. Songs for a Passerby won the ‘Venice Immersive Grand Prize’ at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.

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