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Solastalgia
NEW FRONTIER SELECTION — SUNDANCE 2020
Mixed reality · 2019

Solastalgia

with Antoine Viviani
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Format
Immersive mixed-reality installation · ~40 min
Directed by
Antoine Viviani & Pierre-Alain Giraud
Production
Providences, with the Novaya teams
Premiere
Les Champs Libres, Rennes · November 2019
Setup
HoloLens 2 · 400 m² · groups of 10
The work
Solastalgia: the pain of a world disappearing while we still inhabit it. Wearing cosmonaut suits, visitors explore an Earth become uninhabitable, haunted by a mysterious cloud of light.
A mixed-reality journey for ten visitors: a scorched landscape, a monolith of light, and the last human generations reliving a memory on a loop, like perfect holograms. One of the first installations of this scale created for HoloLens 2, developed with long-time Icelandic artist collaborators.
Sets & forms — Gabríela Friðriksdóttir · Music — Valgeir Sigurðsson · Sound design — Nicolas Becker · Set design — Laurence Fontaine · Choreography — Erna Ómarsdóttir · With Anne Brochet, Marie-Sophie Ferdane, Nancy Huston, Chloé Moglia, Arthur Nauzyciel, Laurent Poitrenaux, Corine Sombrun…
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The set and the volumetric spirits
Selections & touring
Sundance Film Festival · 2020
Cannes XR — Development Showcase, Marché du Film
Cannes Film Festival · 2019
July 2020 → January 2021
Press
“The first work created and screened on the HoloLens 2.”
“The last generations of humans are living as holograms, repeating the same scenes over and over again.”
« La solastalgie définit la détresse existentielle face à cet environnement qui disparaît. »
Videos
Solastalgia — trailer
Solastalgia at Les Champs Libres — Rennes Métropole