KineDok enters the world of virtual reality and pushes the boundaries of alternative film distribution. With two VR films - Darkening and Goodbye Mr. Octopus - it will offer audiences a unique, immersive experience. See for yourself how virtual reality can convey authentic documentary stories and screen these two films with us.
Both of these films are available for our screening venues until the end of May 2025. Please contact us at films@kinedok.net and we can discuss technical arrangements for their screening. If you're not our venue yet, you can become one - you'll find all the information on our website.
DARKENING (Ondřej Moravec, 2022, 25 min)
How is the world perceived by someone with depression? The animated immersive film uses virtual reality to address depression and the ways to cope with it. Director and protagonist Ondřej guides us through diverse landscapes associating the story of his struggle with depression since puberty. We share his feelings during the first depressive episodes at a family trip in his childhood, at university when striving for perfect results, at work in his everyday fights with the depressive ‘darkening’. Through animation, combining a stylized form of Ondřej’s environment and abstract images of his emotions, the viewers experience and understand what it is like to live with this illness, how to tackle it and what mechanisms are used by people with depression to feel better. Most of the interactions are voice controlled. The main character Ondřej finds out that his tool to get the depression under control is his own voice. He uses humming, singing and even shouting as a calming and relieving technique.
GOODBYE MR. OCTOPUS (Amaury Campion, Lily Lambert, 2020, 10 min)
Goodbye Mr. Octopus is an animated short virtual reality movie. Stella lives alone with her father in a quiet suburb. Liv, her mother who barely raised her, is a star anthropologist and biologist who spends the majority of her time on the other side of the world. On her birthday, Stella’s overprotective father refuses to let her participate in a soccer tournament in Australia that is very important to her. Just when she was ready to give up, she receives help in a very unexpected way: a letter from her mother from the other side of the world, painful but illuminating and able to help her emancipate herself and embrace her future.