Alternate Realities Programme
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Alternate Realities Exhibition
The Alternate Realities exhibition showcases innovative non-fiction and immersive documentary in all forms. Taking place at Site Gallery, the exhibition is free and open to all throughout the festival dates.
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Exhibition
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Alternate Realities Summit
The Alternate Realities Summit is an opportunity to come together with nonfiction media makers of all kinds to expand our conception of what it means to engage technology, old and new, to document and transform reality.
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Event
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Alternate Realities VR Cinema
A wide-ranging programme highlighting cutting-edge technology and envelope-pushing creativity. Visit SITE Gallery Studio 1 to immerse yourself in the Virtual Reality experiences.
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Exhibition
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Distant Feeler
How far beyond the screen can cinematic projection travel? Is telepathic cinema possible?
  • Juan David González Monroy, Anja Dornieden
  • 2020
  • Alternate Realities Programme
XR Live Performance Installation
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Draw For Change: We Exist, We Resist
Explore Maremoto's world, where her art empowers women and confronts femicide. Experience her creative process, witness a protest, and navigate the challenges of sexual harassment in Mexico.
  • Mariana Cadenas Sangronis
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Emperor
An interactive experience that offers a moving portrayal of a daughter's attempts to understand and connect with her father, as he suffers from aphasia.
  • Marion Burger, Ilan J. Cohen
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Gong: Sounds of Sheffield
Poetic community voices and soothing acoustics reverberate through Sheffield as we are guided on a meditative journey through the City's green spaces.
  • Muna Mcadie
  • 2024
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Installation
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LETU: Frankie’s Story
LETU is an interactive virtual experience that allows you to visit idealised digital worlds for the LGBTQIA+ communities of East Africa.
  • Arafa C. Hamadi
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Murmuration
Dive into Kanope's magical realist ocean journey, blending hope with survival in a tale of migration that honours those seeking a better future.
  • Patricia Bergeron
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Nocturnal Fugue
This multi-sensorial installation emulates the communicative complexity of bats. Morph into a bat and echolocate through space or sit and feel the vibrations of bat vocalisation.
  • Jiabao Li, Matt McCorkle, Botao Amber Hu
  • 2024
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Installation
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Nocturnal Fugue: Live Bat Jam
Dance, listen and echolocate through waves of bat vocalisations and electronic music in this special live performance.
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Performance
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Perinatal Dreaming. Understanding Country
A meditative and thought provoking work that depicts early life in the womb and entry into the world, whilst exploring the impact of perinatal trauma.
  • Marianne Wobcke / Big Anxiety Research Centre, Volker Kuchelmeister, Lucia Barrera
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Queer Utopia: Act I Cruising
A deeply personal and moving portrayal of a retired playwright’s life experiences, reconstructed through abstract memories that comment on the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights.
  • Lui Avallos / Mundivagante Studio, Rodrigo Moreira
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Virtual Reality
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Remember This Place: 31°20’46’’N 34°46’46’’E
Stories hold dreams and they also hold memories. Remembering can be an act of rebellion and resistance to forces of erasure. A moving collection of stories from Bedouin women remembering the homes they have been forcibly removed from and the culture they are fighting to preserve.
  • Patricia Echeverria Liras, Roba Fraowna, Lobna Alsana, Sheikha Helawy, Sabah al Turi, Fatima Fraowna
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Installation
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Shadowtime
Encased in a specially-built camera obscura, this piece questions our very desire to escape into virtual, enclosed worlds that only seem divorced from our physical, ecological one.
  • Sister Sylvester, Deniz Tortum
  • 2023
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Installation
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The Finger Rub Rug
If the body is an immersive medium then the skin is one of its most powerful tools and the practice of touch is a mode of immersive engagement.
  • Laura A Dima
  • 2020
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Installation
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Traces of Responsibility
An interactive audience experience set in Rwanda that traces a convicted war criminal with ties to Switzerland.
  • Anja Reiss, Jann Anderegg
  • 2024
  • Alternate Realities Programme
Film

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