Blackout | Virtual Reality Experience, Installation
12-15 min | Tribeca Film Festival, Storyscapes, 2017
Blackout is a participatory, volumetric VR project gathering reflections from real people living in today’s tense political climate through the lens of the New York subway.
Considered to be the first full volumetric documentary, this non-linear story is made from a broad set of soulful documentary interviews. By featuring a rotating, ‘crowd-sourced’ cast, Blackout addresses the impossible task of representing the extraordinary breadth of human experience in New York City.
Each viewing of Blackout is different, surrounding you with a unique group of straphangers taking you to the places their minds go between destinations.
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Tribeca Film Festival, Storyscapes (2017)
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Routledge | Crafting Stories for Virtual Reality - Melissa Bosworth, Lakshmi Sarah
Engadget | 'Blackout' is a VR love letter to NYC's subway riders - Devindra Hardawar
Fast Company | These Filmmakers Are Immortalizing New Yorkers And Their Stories In 3D - Katharine Schwab
BBC | Virtual reality: The hype, the problems and the promise - Tim Maughan
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This project was created with generous support from Cinereach, TriBeCa Film Institute, The New Museum's NEW INC incubator, Kickstarter.