Virtual Reality || Art Instalations || Immersive Thearter
I am very proud of the VR projects I have produced over the years.
CARNE y ARENA
Virtually present, Physically invisible
Based on true accounts, the superficial lines between subject and bystander are blurred and bound together, allowing individuals to walk in a vast space and thoroughly live a fragment of the refugees's personal journeys.
CARNE y ARENA premiered at the 70th Cannes Film Festival as the first virtual reality project to be featured in the festival's history. It was presented for the first time in its extensive full version at Fondazione Prada in Milan.
Five-time Academy Award-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu was presented a special Oscar® in 2017 for CARNE y ARENA, recognized by the Academy as an exceptional storytelling experience.
WAR REMAINS
Dan Carlin Presents an Immersive Memory
Virtual Reality creates other dimensions. The medium allows the storyteller to engage the audience in a way that previous storytelling genres haven't been able to tap into. The engagement level is so much higher because the audience is 100% involved. It's an active not passive experience.
At times it can seem so real that the human body will unconsciously react to what's going on in the experience even though the conscious mind knows that it's an illusion. Someone once explained it to me by saying that this technology can fool a person's “Lizard Brain”. Being able to activate that part of a person's sensory system is an amazing tool to put into the hands of someone trying to make their audience feel that they're inhabiting the tale. It's one less layer of reality separating the audience from the story.
CHAINED
A Victorian Nightmare
An immersive theater VR adaptation of Charles Dickens’s classic A Christmas Carol. Step into Victorian-era London, keep the company of ghosts, and confront your own past, present, and future through a bone-chilling journey of self-discovery in this evocative new vision of a classic tale.
This smash hit was so popular in LA that it sold out its five-week run in under 48 hours. It was later asked to show in NYC by the Future of Story Telling group.