Back to the heart of the Venice Production Bridge at La Biennale di Venezia – Venice International Film Festival, the long-awaited back-to-school event for the artistic and immersive ecosystem, which promised to be rich for Diversion through its annual birthday and the celebration of this milestone with the arrival of a new logo, the expansion of the nu:reality platform into new territories, the announcement of the upcoming catalog of ‘Immersive Projection Works’, and above all, reuniting with partners and clients evolving in the immersive industry to seek out for new collaborations and opportunities.
On this basis, Diversion has acquired two new Virtual Reality works to join their catalog: the Canadian 360 film BODIES OF WATER (UNE EAU LA NUIT) by Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin and Caroline Laurin-Beaucage, and A SIMPLE SILENCE by Craig Quintero. Diversion thus concludes the complete acquisition of the Taiwanese “Just For You” trilogy with this latest chapter, A Simple Silence, which joins its peers ALL THAT REMAINS (2022) and OVER THE RAINBOW (2023).
BODIES OF WATER (UNE EAU LA NUIT), a VR Film directed by Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin and Caroline Laurin-Beaucage.
Canada | 2024 | Production: art et essai (Jeanne-Marie Poulain, Laurence Wells, Irène Bessone, Line Sander Egede, Anaëlle Béglet, Rémi Dufresne)
The VR film BODIES OF WATER invites you to hold your breath and let yourself be transported and transformed by water in the company of curious individuals.As night falls, they invade a public swimming pool. These bodies of water, immersed in the watery mass, transgress the limits of their natural environment and metamorphose. They then engage in a contemporary dance that reveals them differently. The aquatic environment makes them supple and light, but also vulnerable and combative. This poetic mass, encompassing and suffocating, unites, separates and constitutes them. BODIES OF WATER explores the transformation of human bodies as they interact with water – a fluid and adaptable medium that simultaneously presents resistance. It takes you underwater for an immersive experience that unfolds an uncommon and otherwise inaccessible contemporary dance.
BODIES OF WATER (UNE EAU LA NUIT) synopsis
A SIMPLE SILENCE, a VR Film directed by Craig Quintero.
Taiwan | 2024 | Production: Riverbed Theatre (Su-Ling Yeh)
It seems like such an easy request: a simple silence. A stillness without the weight of work or love or death. A moment in between. But we have learned there is an almost impossible gap between this ambition and the reality of living, that our silence is never simple. In the flickering light, we hold our breaths, anticipating the storm. Something must be lost before it can be found. A SIMPLE SILENCE is the final chapter in Riverbed Theatre’s award-winning Just For You Trilogy that premiered in Venice in 2022 with All That Remains and continued in 2023 with Over the Rainbow. This new 360VR experience continues the series’ exploration of our connectedness to the world around us, imbuing the environment with an animistic quality while also blurring the boundary between seeing and being seen. The audience is not a witness to the experience; they are the experience. A SIMPLE SILENCE confronts us with the uneasiness of our inevitable truths, that every beginning implies an ending, that we are shadows passing through the darkness.
A SIMPLE SILENCE synopsis
