Virtual Reality
This year the festival includes a VR experience for the first time. Providing an interactive experience through a VR headset, such VR film displays have been a part of prominent film festivals’ program such as Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, Locarno and Toronto since 2015. Although the discussion evolve around the technology has a long past, recent developments within the field paves the way for fresh ways for storytelling. As the audience are in a more active position, they become a part of the narrative beyond what is previously available for them, which is just watching. By this way, since the involvement within a story increases, empathizing with characters and each other also becomes more possible. Due to these features, VR experiences are a perfect fit for a festival that has been advocating for the right to participate in cultural life and emphasizing the possibility of watching a film together. In order to perceive the world with different senses and to experience the stories including those who doesn’t have a platform for their representation, Accessible Film Festival’s program includes two VR experiences this year.
NOTES ON BLINDNESS: INTO DARKNESS
In Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness, the audience will have a chance to experience the audio diary of author and theologian John Hull who has been losing his sight slowly since 1983. Through a VR headset, the audience will be a part of Hull’s sensory and psychological experiences in this process.
In addition to this interactive experience, the documentary named Notes on Blindness (Pete Middleton, James Spinney, 2016) focusing on audio diary of John Hull in the process of losing his sight will be screened.
May 12-14, SineBu, İstanbul
2May 20-23, Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi, Ankara
In Notes on Blindness: Into Darkness, the audience will have a chance to experience the audio diary of author and theologian John Hull who has been losing his sight slowly since 1983. Through a VR headset, the audience will be a part of Hull’s sensory and psychological experiences in this process.
In addition to this interactive experience, the documentary named Notes on Blindness (Pete Middleton, James Spinney, 2016) focusing on audio diary of John Hull in the process of losing his sight will be screened.
May 12-14, SineBu, İstanbul
2May 20-23, Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi, Ankara
WHEELCHAIR SIMULATION
This simulator is designed to give a sense of day-to-day challenges of wheelchair users in urban areas to those who do not have an orthopedic impairment. Designed by Reo-Tek, which is a firm operating at METU Technopolis, the simulator turns challenges wheelchair users face with in a city into a VR experience aiming to make empathizing with them more possible.
May 20-22, Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi, Ankara
May 20-22, Çağdaş Sanatlar Merkezi, Ankara