2020 PiXii Festival Selection
explore the next dimension of storytelling
After three successful years, PiXii Festival is back in 2020 for its 4th edition.
Over four days, from 22-25 June 2020, PiXii Festival “Connected Edition” features an amazing exhibition of the most innovative stories and digital installations created through new convergences of documentary, culture and immersive technologies.
The event is conducted in synergy with Sunny Side of the Doc, the international marketplace for documentary and narrative experiences. PiXii Festival puts the stories first, benefits from the non-fiction industry’s expertise and has become well renowned on the digital and creative scene.
2020 official selection
Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass
Musée du Louvre / HTC vive arts / Emissive
Virtual Reality
The Holy City
Nimrod Shanit – Timur Musabay – OccupiedVR – Blimey
XR
Transport yourself to the world’s spiritual epicentre in this engaging sensory narrative experience built using stunning photogrammetrical scans of Jerusalem. The Holy City utilizes a series of challenging interactive games in room-scale environments to help nurture empathy and understanding amongst the Abrahamic cultures and religions of the city.
Pompéi, the VR Experience
Gédéon
Virtual Reality
This VR experience offers 3 simultaneous users to put themselves in the shoes of an archaeologist. Searching the ruins of the Pompei Garden House using a time beam, the user is invited to search for an archaeological object. A quest that will take him back in time.
Civil War 1864: A Virtual Reality Experience
American Battlefield Trust
Virtual Reality
Experience Civil War warfare, as never before, with the American Battlefield Trust’s new virtual reality feature. This immersive storytelling approach will put you back in time as you navigate in 360 degrees how it may have looked, felt and sounded to be a Civil War soldier.
Insurrection 1944: Immersion into the inner workings of French armed Resistance
Paris Musées / Musée de la Libération de Paris – Musée du Général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin / Realcast
Mixed Reality
Insurrection 1944 is an immersive experience twenty meters below The Museum of the Liberation of Paris. Through a HoloLens mixed reality headset, the visitor is in the skin of a resistant journalist who came to interview the head of the French forces.
Lights!
Les films du tambour de soie / Small Creative
Virtual Reality / Smart Objects / 3D Sound
An empty cube. An exterior, a green wall invites you to enter a forest. Three users equip themselves and get into the forest. The night seizes them. A lantern is placed on a stone bench. One of the users grabs it to reveal the landscape and its sound universe. They must walk. In the distance the contours of a 14th century city appear.
Le Voyage de Kotick
Promenons-nous dans les bois
Augmented Reality
Help a young seal to save the Arctic Ocean from a predicted disaster. Thanks to your commitment and the resilience of nature, Kotick will soon be able to live in a better world.
Monument VR
Iconem
Virtual Reality
With this VR experience, you will be able to discover the most beautiful heritage sites in 3D real time. You will be able to digitally travel through sites, that one can’t physically visit anymore (in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria…) and marvel in front of dozens of World Heritage jewels.
The Antarctica Experience
Briege Whitehead / White Spark Pictures
Virtual Reality
This world-first documentary filmed in stunning 360 4K, provides a unique opportunity to visit the frozen continent and explore the effects of climate change, as well as see how scientists manage eco-systems, research sustainability and conserve wildlife – in the most successful VR film of all time.
MauAR
Kultur Projekte Berlin
Augmented Reality
AR app to experience the history of the Berlin Wall since its construction until the Peaceful Revolution. The app includes personal stories as interactive episodes from East and West Berlin and about key moments in 1989/90 – all at the historic places from Alexanderplatz to the Stasi Headquarters.
Walled-in
Joffrey Lavigne / Marguerite Boutrolle
Augmented Reality
Walled-In is a comic-Instagram at the crossroads of a thriller and a historical documentary.
We follow three characters whose destinies were turned upside down by the construction of the Wall of Shame. Each season tells the story of a character in ten episodes. Episodes are published using the Instagram carousel tool, which displays a frieze of ten boxes to scroll horizontally. In addition to the episodes, historical insights, developed from archive footage, are published as interactive stories.
Birdie Long Gone
Demute Studio
Augmented Reality
Birdie Long Gone is a 20-minute immersive experience for one spectator who brings a travel trunk back to life that has become the magical theatre of a quest for origins. Thanks to immersive headphones, we can hear the memories come to life around us, leaving the spectator imagine the world around him.
Meet Mortaza
Les Produits Frais / Joséphine Derobe
Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality
Meet Mortaza VR is an immersive experience sharing the intimacy of a man who was forced into exile. This story recalls the search of freedom and identity of a man, embracing a long journey through different continents.