IMMERSIVE
Thur 9 July – Sat 11 July | Locations across Galway City
The Galway Film Fleadh’s Immersive strand returns this year with eight experiences presented across three venues in the city. From an adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Not I to an immersive recreation of flooding in Australia, the programme showcases some of the most innovative examples of virtual reality storytelling from Ireland, and internationally. Across these embodied interactive experiences, Fleadh Immersive invites audiences to step inside the stories and be transported.
A Long Goodbye
Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands | 35′
In this interactive animated VR experience, we walk in the shoes of a 72-year-old pianist living with dementia. Winner of the Venice Immersive Achievement Prize.
Directors: Kate Voet, Victor Maes
The Baby Factory is Closed
UK | 20′
A 20-minute single player immersive VR experience that places users inside the body of Zoraan, a British-born Sikh woman navigating menopause amidst climate collapse and the ruins of colonial medicine.
Director: Deepa Mann-Kler
Bodies of Water
Canada | 23′
The VR film Bodies of Water invites you to hold your breath and let yourself be transported and transformed. It takes you underwater for an immersive experience of an uncommon and otherwise inaccessible contemporary dance.
Directors: Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage
Ito Meikyū
France, Luxembourg | 15′
Presented in association with the French Embassy in Ireland and Institut francais. Ito Meikyū is inspired by Japanese art and literature. Winner of the Venice Immersive Grand Prize.
Director: Boris Labbé
Mirage
Netherlands, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia | 8′
Mirage is an interactive VR experience set in a desert landscape. It invites the audience to embark on an immersive journey through a young girl’s mind.
Directors: Naima Karim, Aleena Hanif
Not I VR
Ireland | 13′
Samuel Beckett’s Not I is reimagined as an immersive VR installation, where a hyperreal digital mouth confronts the viewer with a torrent of speech.
Director: Nicholas Johnson
Silent Disco
Germany | 42′
Immerse yourself in three surreal worlds: an endless disco in hell, a shimmering strip club, and a macabre dance of death.
Director: Fabio Thieme
The World Came Flooding In
Australia | 25′
A powerful VR documentary where lost objects and spaces are recreated in collaboration with people affected by the 2022 floods in Australia.
Directors: Isobel Knowles, Van Sowerwine
