Institute Festival Professionals

New Media -proposal -

New Media -proposal -

Program

This year, IDFA DocLab revolves around the theme of 'This Is Not a Simulation.' Digital media ranging from VR to AR and from performances to interactive installations, challenge you to think about reality. What do we take for granted, and what's the connection between authenticity and representation? Does The Truth even exist at all, in times of artificial intelligence, post-truth, and alternate virtual worlds? In other words, how does reality get presented, perceived, and interpreted, and which role does technology play—and you as an individual?

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AI & Me

AI & Me

IDFA DocLab Spotlight

Can AI know me just by looking at me? This provocative installation investigates the human willingness to be judged by machines purely on the basis of their appearance.

All I Know About Teacher Li

All I Know About Teacher Li

IDFA DocLab Spotlight

Countless paper planes filled with censored lockdown messages from China float towards you in this interactive VR film. Toss them back and feel what it’s like to start an online revolution, like Teacher Li did in 2022.

Ancestors

Ancestors

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

Using AI, a simple selfie becomes a lifelike vision of the future. During this interactive group experience, the abstract idea of “generations to come” is brought home in a striking way.

Ancestral Secret VR

Ancestral Secret VR

Francisca Silva, Maria Jose Diaz

International Premiere

IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

A VR in which the user participates in filmed rituals of the Q’ero Nation in Peru, descendants of the Incas. Seeking harmony between humans and nature, the rituals in the Andes summon forces that appear as animations.

Bad Trip

Bad Trip

Emese Pálovics

IDFA DocLab Spotlight

An immersive dome experience in which a family photo evokes disturbing memories for a lonely boy. Hunting for the dark creatures that increasingly emerge, he sinks into the shadowy recesses of his home, as well as his subconscious mind.

Burn from Absence

Burn from Absence

Emeline Courcier

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

A video installation and fulldome experience that present the Vietnamese family history of artist Emeline Courcier as a polyphonic narrative. Family photographs and stories are processed by AI to fill the gaps in this auto-fictional work.

DOLLHOUSE for Queer Imaginaries

DOLLHOUSE for Queer Imaginaries

IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

What does a safe space for queer people look like? This VR project invites visitors to playfully explore the virtual dollhouse, raising questions about what makes a place a home.

Drift

Drift

Nienke Huitenga, Hay Kranen, Lieven Heeremans

Immersive, Digital

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

In a generative audio experience, Drift connects rising sea levels and the climate crisis to the rise of AI. The story world combines the imaginary with factual sources at the pace and rhythm of the lunar phases and the tides.

Drinking Brecht: an Automated Laboratory Performance

Drinking Brecht: an Automated Laboratory Performance

Sister Sylvester

United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands

IDFA on Stage, IDFA DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction

Using DNA extracted from a hat worn by actors in Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble, this interactive installation explores the past and present of genetics and synthetic biology. A documentary in a drink, Drinking Brecht is a celebration of science for the people.

Entropic Fields of Displacement

Entropic Fields of Displacement

Pegah Tabassinejad

International Premiere

Digital, Installation

IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling

A game installation based on the idea of wandering as an act of resistance. In a video installation the artist explores, via different women, the cities in which they live. In an interactive performance, the audience guides her avatar through Amsterdam.

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