Events at this location

With expert guests and inspiring artists – the day is geared towards students and media industry audience. We discussed VR art, distribution, reaching new audiences, and personal approaches to making work.

10:00 – 12:00 Student screening
14:00 – 15:00 ‘Meet the artists’: Melanie Courtinat (FR) and Darren Emerson (UK)
15:00 – 15:30 Artist talk: Abner Preis, VR creator (NL)

Mélanie Courtinat

Mélanie Courtinat is an award-winning immersive art director and artist, born and based in Paris, France. Considering video games as a major medium, she focuses on their extraordinary immersive properties, and seeks to push back their limits. As an art director, she works on commissioned projects or clients in the Luxury, Fashion, Culture & Music fields. Mélanie also teaches video game theory at Écal in Lausanne.

Darren Emerson

Darren Emerson is an Immersive Artist, Director, Writer, and Producer and the Co-Founder of London production company East city films. His works had been shown at Venice biennale, IDFA Doc Lab, Tribeca Film Festival, Sheffield Doc Fest and won the awards for Best Immersive Storytelling at Sandbox Immersive Festival, the Grand Prix Innovation at Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Best VR Experience at the Broadcast Awards, and Best VR Narrative at the World.

Abner Preis

Abner Preis is a story-teller whose work is rooted in personal aspirations to give one hope in a situation that seems hopeless, to transfer the ability to laugh at sadness. What his extensive research, sensitivity and awareness provide is the simple and extremely difficult ability to tell a story with visuals that can be felt before they are understood. Abner was awarded tur ANIDOX:VR Award for his work ‘The Wind Through the Curtains’ in 2020 and is presenting his current work as part of the Expanded Animation Lab at VAF.

ANIDOX is a creative platform for the development, production and exhibition of animated documentary projects. Returning with a special exhibition at Gallery NB: Viborg Animation Festival celebrates factual, animated stories in emerging media / Virtual Reality. Presenting a selection of contemporary works focused on outstanding storytelling and craftsmanship.
Exhibition

Selection

House of Moiré
By Chloe Alexandra Thompson, Matthew Edwards (CA)
House of Moiré invites users into a void-like realm, where one’s experience is defined by the curiosity of their eyes and ears. In self-directed exploration, the viewer advances through a succession of rooms dressed in optical patterns, audio-visual programming, and minimalist spatial design.

All unsaved progress will be lost
By Mélanie Courtinat (FR)
All Unsaved Progress Will Be Lost is a melancholic journey through a ghost town made of concrete and fog, based on the testimony of a woman who refused to evacuate her hometown village after a terrible disaster.

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats
By Darren Emerson (UK)
A euphoric, interactive VR adventure that transports you into the heart of the Acid House movement, where finding the party is the only thing that matters.

MLK: Now is the time
By Limbert Fabian (USA)
An immersive journey that explores key themes of Dr. King’s speech and highlights systemic inequities that persist in our society.

ANIDOX is a creative platform for the development, production and exhibition of animated documentary projects. Returning with a special exhibition at Gallery NB: Viborg Animation Festival celebrates factual, animated stories in emerging media / Virtual Reality. Presenting a selection of contemporary works focused on outstanding storytelling and craftsmanship.
Exhibition

Selection

House of Moiré
By Chloe Alexandra Thompson, Matthew Edwards (CA)
House of Moiré invites users into a void-like realm, where one’s experience is defined by the curiosity of their eyes and ears. In self-directed exploration, the viewer advances through a succession of rooms dressed in optical patterns, audio-visual programming, and minimalist spatial design.

All unsaved progress will be lost
By Mélanie Courtinat (FR)
All Unsaved Progress Will Be Lost is a melancholic journey through a ghost town made of concrete and fog, based on the testimony of a woman who refused to evacuate her hometown village after a terrible disaster.

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats
By Darren Emerson (UK)
A euphoric, interactive VR adventure that transports you into the heart of the Acid House movement, where finding the party is the only thing that matters.

MLK: Now is the time
By Limbert Fabian (USA)
An immersive journey that explores key themes of Dr. King’s speech and highlights systemic inequities that persist in our society.

ANIDOX is a creative platform for the development, production and exhibition of animated documentary projects. Returning with a special exhibition at Gallery NB: Viborg Animation Festival celebrates factual, animated stories in emerging media / Virtual Reality. Presenting a selection of contemporary works focused on outstanding storytelling and craftsmanship.
Exhibition

Selection

House of Moiré
By Chloe Alexandra Thompson, Matthew Edwards (CA)
House of Moiré invites users into a void-like realm, where one’s experience is defined by the curiosity of their eyes and ears. In self-directed exploration, the viewer advances through a succession of rooms dressed in optical patterns, audio-visual programming, and minimalist spatial design.

All unsaved progress will be lost
By Mélanie Courtinat (FR)
All Unsaved Progress Will Be Lost is a melancholic journey through a ghost town made of concrete and fog, based on the testimony of a woman who refused to evacuate her hometown village after a terrible disaster.

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats
By Darren Emerson (UK)
A euphoric, interactive VR adventure that transports you into the heart of the Acid House movement, where finding the party is the only thing that matters.

MLK: Now is the time
By Limbert Fabian (USA)
An immersive journey that explores key themes of Dr. King’s speech and highlights systemic inequities that persist in our society.

ANIDOX is a creative platform for the development, production and exhibition of animated documentary projects. Returning with a special exhibition at Gallery NB: Viborg Animation Festival celebrates factual, animated stories in emerging media / Virtual Reality. Presenting a selection of contemporary works focused on outstanding storytelling and craftsmanship.
Exhibition

Selection

House of Moiré
By Chloe Alexandra Thompson, Matthew Edwards (CA)
House of Moiré invites users into a void-like realm, where one’s experience is defined by the curiosity of their eyes and ears. In self-directed exploration, the viewer advances through a succession of rooms dressed in optical patterns, audio-visual programming, and minimalist spatial design.

All unsaved progress will be lost
By Mélanie Courtinat (FR)
All Unsaved Progress Will Be Lost is a melancholic journey through a ghost town made of concrete and fog, based on the testimony of a woman who refused to evacuate her hometown village after a terrible disaster.

In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats
By Darren Emerson (UK)
A euphoric, interactive VR adventure that transports you into the heart of the Acid House movement, where finding the party is the only thing that matters.

MLK: Now is the time
By Limbert Fabian (USA)
An immersive journey that explores key themes of Dr. King’s speech and highlights systemic inequities that persist in our society.