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Dark Rooms

Venice Immersive
Director:
Mads Damsbo, Laurits Flensted Jensen, Anne Sofie Steen Sverdrup
Production:
Morph Film (Maximilian Mayrshofer, Kate Lis, Bjarke Due Gunslev), NowHere Media (Gayatri Parameswaran, Felix Gaedtke, Lilian Hess, Mia von Kolpakow, Agnieszka Kracla), NAXS Studio (Han-Yu Feng, Chin-Hsuan Sung, Dai-Yun Nien), Makropol (Mads Damsbo), Bedside Productions (Anne Sofie Steen Sverdrup)
Running Time:
35’
Language:
English
Country:
Denmark, Germany, Taipei
Main Cast:
Anjay, Trixie D., F.L., yaalioness
Screenplay:
Laurits Flensted-Jensen, Mads Damsbo, Anne Sofie Steen Sverdrup, Gayatri Parameswaran, Anjay, Trixie D., F.L., yaalioness
Music:
kling klang klong
Sound:
Mads Michelsen, Peter Seeba, Mia von Kolpakow, Helen Hess, Sound recording studio e19 Studios
Art direction:Ville Vidø, Han-Yu Feng
Lead developers:Yu-Jie Huang, Mathias Rodrigues Bjerre
Developers:Gim Chuang, Kuokpan Wong, Kevin Hsieh, Yi Kuo, Benjamin Bække, Casper Øbro, Developer Tore Knabe
Editor:Volucap (Sven Bliedung von der Heide, Torsten Schimmer, Elizabete Vindule-Mince, Philipp Hundertpfund, Sascha Schwarz, David Kutschke, Arianna Ferraris)
Designers:Felix Onorato, Eg Lio, Coco Tong, Viljam Smed, Mads Vadsholt
Artists:Kevin Hsieh, Wei Huang, Carl Emil Carlsen, Monique Kühn
Technical team:Handler Filip Myrberg

synopsis

Dark Rooms is an exploration of human psychology through the prism of sexuality. The viewer and two other participants are invited to explore four inner spaces, each one a private, intimate story told and co-created by real people. A unique, embodied experience, guiding the users step by step into the heart of human desire and the shadows it casts.
Dark Rooms is a sensory, site-specific and immersive installation that confronts the audience with their own bias and boundaries, exposing our deepest longings and the forces that may shape our sexual identities.

main creators' statement

Dark Rooms was born out of a shared playfulness and curiosity. Laurits, coming from classic documentary, and Mads, from immersive storytelling, began a collaboration based on the idea of a virtual reality experience that would allow the audience to explore unknown territory through the prism of sexuality. Early on, Anne Sofie was connected to the project, and through her eyes and experience with queer and non-normative sexualities, the project grew into its current form. Dark Rooms is not only a reference to the unknown and the sexual — it is also a wish to open the doors to the darker spaces of our protagonists’ sexuality. Under the maxim of “nothing about us, without us”, Dark Rooms was developed and designed through an intimate co-creation process with the protagonists, to help expose their journeys in a form that the audience would embody.

Trailer

Production/distribution

PRODUCTION 1:
Morph Film - Maximilian Mayrshofer
Haraldsgade 28 St Th
2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel: +45 30250350‬
E-mail: max@morph.film
Web: https://morph.film/.com
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/morph__group/ - Instagram

PRODUCTION 2:
NowHere Media - Gayatri Parameswaran, Felix Gaedtke
Emser Str. 27
12051 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 (0)1758271133 / +49 (0)15122429367
E-mail: contact@nowheremedia.net
Web: https://www.nowheremedia.net/
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/nowhere.media/ - Instagram, https://www.linkedin.com/company/nowheremedia/?viewAsMember=true - LinkedIn, https://www.facebook.com/nowheremedia1 - Facebook

PRODUCTION 3:
NAXS Studio - Han-Yu Feng, Chin-Hsuan Sung
3F, No. 73, Sec. 1, Neihu Rd., Neihu Dist.
114006 Taipei City
Tel: +886 966337284 / +886 988486910
E-mail: enter@naxs.tech
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/naxs_studio/ - Instagram, https://www.linkedin.com/company/naxs-studio/ - LinkedIn

PRODUCTION 4:
Makropol - Mads Damsbo
Tomsgårdsvej 19
2400 Copenhagen, Denmark
Tel: +45 61606164
E-mail: mads@makropol.dk
Web: https://makropol.dk/
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/makropolcph/ - Instagram, https://www.linkedin.com/company/makropol/ - LinkedIn

PRODUCTION 5:
Bedside Productions - Anne Sofie Steen Sverdrup
Prinsessegade 7b. 2. sal 1422 København, Denmark
Tel: +45 50377122
E-mail: annesofie@bedside-productions.com
Web: https://www.bedside-productions.com/
Social Media: https://www.instagram.com/bedsideproductions/ - Instagram

ITALIAN DISTRIBUTOR:
Kate Lis
E-mail: kate@morph.film


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