As part of our partnership with Camera Lucida Productions, our students were able to take part in testing interactive scenarios for the documentary program “Replay Memories” launched by this production company. An innovative experience on a creative, artistic and sensory level!
By moving into its new premises at 1 Cité Griset in September, IESA arts&culture wanted to make it the Cultural Innovation Campus so that its students can experience their training in contact with the companies that are changing cultural practices and content. The school’s Film and Audiovisual track has, in this context, formed a partnership with the audiovisual program production company Camera Lucida, one of the most renowned and dynamic in France.
The series "Replay Memories" looks back at ten events of our collective memory, confronting the recollections of witnesses who lived through the event with the analyses of experts, historians, sociologists and neurologists, who decode the reasons for the evolution of our memory. It is the first series of historical documentaries using virtual reality. A program intended to be distributed internationally in the coming months of 2018.
The scenarios tested by our students took place in New York, at the time of the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001. Wearing immersive simulation headsets, they navigated inside the proposed universe and were invited to recall the memory of a historic moment and to confront it with the memory of the web by immersing themselves in it. They then shared their reactions with the production team so that it could use them to fine-tune the final version.
The virtual reality experience immersed our students, from the various programs of IESA arts&culture, in a four-dimensional space containing all the memories of the world. They walked through a real space, a hypercube that can be touched and manipulated and within which they were able to move around. It is, in a way, the apprehension of the fourth dimension through space-time that builds our memory.
A fine example of discovering digital innovations in the audiovisual sector, but also a great meeting between students and professionals!