360° screenings

• Solitarium (2016-2023) | Sumito Sakakibara, Ono Hana _JP

Immersive animation by Japanese director presents a world inside the mind of a person facing struggles, reflecting the inner complexities of their thoughts. The animation explores the artist’s personal history, dreams, and visions, creating a chain of events that repeat with no clear beginning or end. The images show events that are all related in some form or another and show chain of reactions with no obvious beginning or the end as one loop branches out to create new multiple repetitions. Solitarium won the Japan Grand Prix at New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival (2016).

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François Vautier introduces viewers to the futuristic predictions of visionary scientist, humanist, and sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke. *Biosphère* offers an immersion into spectacular landscapes, highlighting the incredible power of nature, while the animation from the Greek collective presents perceptual experiments, connecting the micro and macro cosmos. This block also features the latest surreal animation by Polish artist Ari Dykier, as well as *Drift*, which immerses the viewer in a cosmic journey, prompting reflections on the future of space exploration.

• I Saw The Future (2023)  | François Vautier _FR
• Biosphère (2022) | Florian Guibert, Margaret Hermant _FR
• Protist Rhapsody (2023) | Uncharted limbo Collective _UK/GR
• Drift (2023) | Le Clair Obscur _FR
• Within (2024) | Ari Dykier _PL

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This block features the award-winning fulldome film from the prestigious DomeWestFest in Los Angeles, directed by Ina Chen. The film, following the final moments of a dying humpback whale, tells the tragic story of the largest oil spill in history from the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform. *Tidal Echoes* is an abstract animation contemplating the nature of ocean currents, while Prokofiev’s latest masterpiece takes the audience on a hypnotic journey through three distinct architectural narratives. The program also includes an artistic animation by Sandrine Deumier and a visual audiovisual experiment based on photogrammetry and glitch titled Brèche.

• Brèche (2020) | Sébastien Labrunie, Lu Yi _FR/TW
• Across the Lake / Kòe Ô͘ (2023) | Sandrine Deumier _FR, Cia Himiân Lí _TW
• Local Dystopias in the Global Utopia (2024) | Sergey Prokofyev _UA/DE
• 4993 Feet Under (2023) | Calvin Sin Ina Chen _US
• Tidal Echoes (2023) | Milkorva _FR

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Two audiovisual spectacles created at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) in Montreal.

Écosystème is an audiovisual work based on scientific data that sensorially immerses the viewer in the depths of the sea to highlight the harmful noise pollution affecting marine ecosystems. The award-winning animation Astro explores the reasons behind space exploration from an artistic and creative perspective.

• Écosystème | Maxime Dangles, DylanCote _FR
• Astro | Weidi Zhang, Weilu Ge, Shaoyu Su _US

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Two audiovisual spectacles created at the Society for Arts and Technology (SAT) in Montreal.
The film Metaract was produced during an artistic residency at SAT by creators from Tokyo and Osaka, who developed the project in the fulldome format, exploring the dualism between the analog and digital worlds.
The second film offers a journey through different sleep cycles. It presents an audiovisual reinterpretation of dreams, from falling asleep to deep sleep, attempting to explore the sixth stage of sleep, which remains uncharted.

• État Six (2022) | Name Studio & David Drouin _CA
• Metaract (2023) | Manami Sakamoto, Yuri Urano _JP

Additionally, the screening will conclude with the laser performance Speed of Light, prepared by Mateusz Wolski, Max, and Inga Bubula.

• Speed of Light (2024) | laser performance | Mateusz Wolski,  Max i Inga Bubula _PL

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Chromosphere is an international project co-funded by the European Union, focused on popularizing and educating innovative visual arts creation in the 360° dome (fulldome) format. The project consists of a series of dome-based events in Poland, Greece, Italy, France, and Hungary. The program includes audiovisual concerts, immersive screenings, and workshops in four European cities between 2024-2025.

The project is implemented by a consortium of partners, including: Athens Digital Arts Festival (leader partner from Athens), AADN-Arts et Cultures Numériques from Lyon, Főnix cultural event organization from Debrecen in Hungary, Art Mirror from Romania, Flyer from Rome, and the Photon Foundation, organizer of the Patchlab Digital Art Festival in Krakow.

The event partner is the Society for Arts and Technology from Montreal [SAT]—a world-leading organization conducting artistic and research projects in the 360° dome.

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