| Director: | Raqi Syed, Areito Echevarria |
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| Production: | Floréal Films (Katayoun Dibamehr, Avi Amar), Like Amber (Raqi Syed) |
| Running Time: | 20’ |
| Language: | English |
| Country: | New Zealand, France, USA |
| Main Cast: | Frankie Adams, Allan Henry, Carrie Thiel |
| Cinematographer: | Raqi Syed |
| Music: | Brendan Angelides |
| Sound: | Jimi Wilson |
| Visual Effects: | Sunny Teich |
| PLATFORM: | HTC Viveport |
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| HEADSET: | VIVE - VIVE PRO – Vive Cosmos – Rift - RiftS - Valve Index – MixedReality |
Love, loss, and black holes. Minimum Mass is the story of couple who experience a series of miscarriages and come to believe their children are being born in another dimension. Set in contemporary Rotorua, New Zealand and the speculative world of black holes, it is a 20 minute interactive narrative virtual reality. Minimum Mass takes place in a real-time, photorealistic computer generated story world and has been developed as an in-headset experience.
In Minimum Mass, how the participant interacts with the story can only be guided, not controlled. The design of the experience is inherently at odds with the agency of the participant. This is the core tension of virtual reality, and one which we find incredibly challenging and exciting because our experience of time is at the very centre of it.
PRODUCTION 1: Katayoun Dibamehr, Avi Amar - Floréal Films
28 rue du Chemin Vert
75011 – Paris, France
Tel. +33 0)1 85 09 17 37
bonjour@florealfilms.com
PRODUCTION 2: Raqi Syed – Like Amber
390 Evans Bay Parade
6021 – Hatai, Wellington, New Zealand
Tel. +64 21 707 717
likeambermedia@gmail.com
http://minimum-mass.com
PRESS OFFICE: Mélanie Mingotaud - Communications Mingotwo
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Melanie@mingo2.ca
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