The BFI London Film Festival will launch a brand new strand for video games throughout this yr’s version, which runs from October 9 — 20.
The video video games strand will run alongside LFF Expanded, the competition’s programme of Immersive Artwork and Prolonged Actuality works. 5 online game tasks can be free to entry as a part of an set up at Bargehouse at Oxo Tower Wharf on London’s Southbank. The 5 online game tasks are:
- A Highland Music – follows the journey of protagonist Moira McKinnon, as she navigates the mysteries of the Scottish Highlands.
- Enjoying Kafka – the definitive Franz Kafka videogame, primarily based on his life and work.
- Paper Path – be a part of Paige, a budding educational, as she untangles the puzzle of a foldable, paper world.
- Dome King Cabbage – an award-winning psychedelic visible novel a couple of cloud particular person named Mush making their method to interview for the position of ‘Dome King’.
- Nearer the Distance – a deeply shifting slice-of-life simulation wherein gamers assist a neighborhood to beat collective grief within the face of a tragedy.
The competition’s conventional expanded tasks may also run at Bargehouse in addition to BFI Southbank, BFI IMAX, and Outernet London. The expanded lineup consists of The Nice Endeavor by Liam Younger and a brand new immersive audio challenge by Darkfield. Scroll down for the total listing of titles.
“LFF Expanded has turn out to be integral to the LFF expertise and I invite audiences to go to the boundaries of their creativeness and past with the programme this yr,” Kristy Matheson, BFI London Movie Pageant Director, mentioned of this yr’s titles.
LFF EXPANDED 2024 IMMERSIVE ART AND XR PROGRAMME:
IMMERSIVE INSTALLATIONS
LAST MINUTE – UK PREMIERE
12 – 27 Oct | Bargehouse | 30min | Artist/Studio: Adrien Mondot & Claire Bardainne | Ticketed
One second in time, stretched to infinity: this poetic and captivatingly lovely set up units out to rework our notion of time and area.
What if this was the primary minute of your life? What if it was the final? French artists Claire Bardainne and Adrien Mondot have created an area bathed in photos and sound, capturing a singular second on the threshold between demise and life. Embark on a collective immersive journey by means of a hypnotising universe of music, mild and interactive projections.
IMPULSE: PLAYING WITH REALITY – UK PREMIERE
12 – 27 Oct | Bargehouse | 40min | Artist/Studio: Anagram | Ticketed
What occurs in your thoughts whenever you act on impulse? This challenge playfully explores what it means to dwell with ADHD.
This brilliantly ingenious tackle dwelling with ADHD employs Combined Actuality to seize the visible cacophony of our ideas and what it means to be neurodivergent. By means of charming gameplay, observe 4 outsiders whose rollercoaster of feelings leads them to a life on the sting. Because the characters discover their thought patterns, you may uncover your individual to achieve a state of empathy and understanding.
ARCADE
12 – 27 Oct | BFI Southbank (exterior Theatre Avenue entrance) | 30min | Artist/Studio:
DARKFIELD | Ticketed
Can a gaming avatar take heed to its personal actions? Discover out in DARKFIELD’s newest journey – a totally interactive choose-your-own-path expertise with immersive sound.
Enter ARCADE’s world, the place your selections finally form your journey. You’ll be able to select a facet in a war-torn world, search peace and even be a part of a cult. By means of spatial sound and sensory results, you and your fellow viewers members set out on a quest by means of an alternate actuality, wherein you start to query your notion of free will and consciousness.
THE GREAT ENDEAVOUR – INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE
11 – 27 Oct | Outernet (Free) | 10min | Artist/Studio: Liam Younger | Free
Gigantic waves, raging storms and the most important building challenge in Human historical past: this spectacular cinematic expertise envisions a future world the place we obtain planetary transformation.
To achieve present local weather targets, we should take away a gigatonne-scale of current carbon from the ambiance. Artist and filmmaker Liam Younger approaches this monumental problem with radical optimism. The Nice Endeavour is a collaboration with scientists and technologists – set to a rating by world-renowned musician Lyra Pramuk – that envisions a future world the place we withstand our era’s biggest problem.
SUPERRADIANCE. EMBODYING EARTH – EUROPEAN PREMIERE
11 – 27 Oct | BFI IMAX Lobby (Free) | 20min | Artist/Studio: Memo Akten & Katie Peyton
Hodstadter | Free
Exploring the interaction of AI and dance, this riveting digital simulation merges ethereal dancers with transhuman species, bringing them to life in an immersive ritual area.
This charming multiscreen video and sound set up goals to deepen our connection to international ecosystems. Fusing synthetic intelligence, dance and neuroscience, this otherworldly expertise extends the viewer’s bodily notion, past the pores and skin and into the setting. Situated contained in the lobby of the BFI IMAX, it invitations cinemagoers and public audiences alike to have interaction with its mesmerising visuals and soundscape.
PLAYING WITH REALITY
Complementing the presentation of Anagram’s Impulse: Enjoying With Actuality, this programme appears to be like at neurodivergence in addition to psychological and bodily well being by means of a choice of XR experiences and installations, providing new views on a urgent situation, and geared toward driving societal change
EMPEROR
12 – 27 Oct | Bargehouse| 40min | Lead artist(s): Marion Buger, Ilan J. Cohen | Free
An interactive narrative delving into the world of a father affected by Aphasia and as his daughter grapples together with his misplaced capacity to search out phrases.
Emperor tells the poetic story of a person who has misplaced his capacity to talk, and his daughter’s quest to speak with him. As she unravels his connection to phrases and recollections, we be a part of her on a surreal journey by means of aphasia, exploring themes of loss, age and enduring emotional bonds, all introduced in black and white, and a standard animation model.
MAMMARY MOUNTAIN
12 – 27 Oct | Bargehouse| 23min | Lead artist(s): Tara Baoth Mooney, Camille Baker, Maf’j Alvarez | Free
An intimate VR expertise that explores ‘dis-ease’ throughout the physique, by means of the lived expertise of sufferers with breast most cancers.
Meticulously crafted and developed in shut collaboration with a crew of scientists and researchers, this interactive expertise tells the tales of sufferers’ healthcare struggles, with give attention to breast most cancers remedy. Audiences are led by means of a visible and sonic world that interweaves excerpts from survivors’ tales. It goals to invoke a extra nuanced and holistic understanding of this delicate subject.
SOUL PAINT – UK PREMIERE
12 – 27 Oct | Bargehouse| 27min | Lead artist(s): Sarah Ticho, Niki Smit | Free
Unfolding on the nexus of immersive know-how, inventive storytelling and wellbeing, Soul Paint delves into the richness of the embodied human expertise.
Discover and categorical your feelings and bodily sensations by means of physique mapping, 3D drawing and motion. Utilizing cutting-edge interactive know-how, this expertise, narrated by Rosario Dawson, pushes boundaries and fosters new types of embodied perception. It permits us to mirror on the range of human expertise, each on particular person and common ranges.
STIM CINEMA
12 – 27 Oct | Bargehouse| Lead artist(s): The Neurocultures Collective and Steven Eastwood | Free
This set up investigates the connections between repetitive stimming behaviours which might be widespread in autism, the earliest types of shifting photos and up to date digital artwork.
Stim Cinema explores repetitive actions and autistic experiences by tracing the origins of cinema and its language. Coalescing neurodivergent views, it gives new representations of autism, and it pioneers inclusive practices in shifting picture artwork. Co-created by The Neurocultures Collective and artist-filmmaker Steven Eastwood, this challenge invitations viewers to expertise the enjoyment in stimming and shared neurodiversity.
