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Virtual reality film takes you inside infamous South American jail
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A mysterious woman flanked by two blue jaguars welcomes you to an infamous South American jail.
You don a golden mask, step inside and take a surreal journey among guards, prisoners, spirits and animals.
Virtual reality film heading for Sundance: director Violeta Ayala with (from left) producer Dan Fallshaw, composer XNYWOLF (Andre Patzi) and 3D Illustrator Roly Elias at the United Notions studio in Sydneyâs Petersham.
Credit:James Alcock
Violeta Ayalaâs virtual reality film
This year there’s a scaled-down selection of titles to view, with Baobab Studios’
Namoo is Korean for “tree”, taking viewers on a journey through a man’s life with each branch a different memory. Created using Oculus’
Quill,the project will be coming to Oculus platforms later this year.
And then there’s
Prison X,
Chapter 1: The Devil and The Sun, a new VR series from Quechua filmmaker Violeta Ayala. The first episode takes you into Bolivia’s infamous San Sebastian Prison as Inti, a young man imprisoned after his first job as a drug mule. “It was my world but it wasn’t a world you could capture with a camera,” says Ayala who grew up three blocks from the prison. “And I needed technology that wasn’t yet invented – virtual reality.”