White Dwarf – VR Installation
3–13/11, 13:00–21:00
WHITE DWARF – VR INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION
All Around Cinema (Eastern Outpost of the Gate, Pier A, Port of Thessaloniki)
The White Dwarf is a star which has used up all its power and dies silently, without exploding. How would the atomic bomb be if it had the fate of a White Dwarf? If, instead of wreaking havoc, it had remained locked in a room until it would become an exhibit in a museum of the future?
White Dwarf is an immersive 360° virtual reality experience. The research of theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who is dubbed as the “father of the atomic bomb” meets the real story of Sadako Sasaki, a little girl, victim of the Hiroshima bombing. Scientific developments and space exploration are juxtaposed with the little girl’s pledge for peace in the aftermath of World War II. Τhe macro and micro histories intertwine in a minimalist environment, while the voyage of cosmic memory throughout history evokes the freedom of light travel. The explosion of the atomic bomb resembles that of the death of a star in a supernova explosion; though, instead of restoring the cosmic equilibrium, it causes irrevocable damage on Earth.
The audience is challenged to participate in a holistic experience that extends the virtual into the physical world and vice versa. One becomes part of a scientific experiment that will change humanity forever.
Directed by Yolanda Markopoulou and produced by POLYPLANITY Productions.
With the financial support of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports
Supported by
- Honorary events
- Special screenings and events
- Exhibitions - Installations
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Masterclasses
- THE ROLE OF FILM MUSIC”: MUSIC IN MOTION MASTERCLASS WITH ZBIGNIEW PREISNER
- “DON’T THINK LIKE A COMPOSER”: MUSIC IN MOTION MASTERCLASS WITH COTI K.
- “QUEER BEFORE IT WAS COOL”: ICONIC TALKS POWERED BY MASTERCARD WITH PANOS H. KOUTRAS
- “REAL IMAGINATION – STORYTELLING IN THE AGE OF AI”: AGORA SERIES MASTERCLASS WITH TATJANA SAMOPJAN
- “RUNNING THE SHOW”: AGORA SERIES MASTERCLASS WITH ANNA WINGER
- “SCORING A LIFE BETWEEN HOLLYWOOD AND GREECE”: MUSIC IN MOTION MASTERCLASS WITH KOSTAS CHRISTIDES, MODERATED BY ELENI MITSIAKI
- “THE ART AND CRAFT OF CASTING”: MASTERCLASS BY ELLEN LEWIS
- “THE DIRECTOR’S SOUND AND THE COMPOSER’S VISION”: MUSIC IN MOTION MASTERCLASS WITH EVANTHIA REBOUTSIKA AND TASSOS BOULMETIS
- “THE JOURNEY AND THE ROLE OF MUSIC IN A FILM”: MUSIC IN MOTION MASTERCLASS WITH SUZANA PERIĆ
- “THOUGHTS ON MUSIC IN CINEMA”: MUSIC IN MOTION MASTERCLASS WITH NIKOS KYPOURGOS
- One day event
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Open discussions - presentations
- 30 YEARS OF EEA GRANTS IN GREECE
- American elections SOS: A gripping documentary and an enlightening discussion
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN THE ARTS AND CINEMA – AN EVENT BY THE GREEK DIRECTORS GUILD
- BLINK GFE PRESENTATION (Greek Film Editors Association)
- CINEMATOGRAPHERS ILLUMINATE GREEK CINEMA – OPEN DISCUSSION: GREEK SOCIETY OF CINEMATOGRAPHERS (GSC)
- LG OLED: THE ULTIMATE CINEMATIC VIEWING EXPERIENCE
- MEET THE ARTIST: JESPER JUST
- Music events
- Party