SWARM      (2022)     360° animation,  Fulldome/ VR, 8K,  14:30

 

Swarming is a behavioral phenomenon to survive,
but more than often, it is a prelude for extinction.
 

Fly with the flock as they travel  from Germany, over the Alps, to the Mediteranean Sea.
Small birds migrating over exhausted and exploited landscapes.
Robins, tits and sparrows do not usually migrate this far, but in a near future, they might.

Swarm offers a bird's eye's view over landscapes of threedimensional photocollages that show a part of Europe after climate change.

 

Animated in VR: Quill

Photogrammetry models scanned from Google Earth

A film by Maarten Isaäk de Heer

Production: Menetekel Film
Producer: Evelyn Brancard

(c) Berlin 2022

 

Awards

Nominated Best of Earth Award 2023

Audience Award Best VR - Anima Brussels 2023
Best Art and Experimental - Fulldome UK 2022

Best of VR -  Kaboom Animation Festival, Amsterdam 2022

Prix d'originalité -  SAT fest Montreal 2022

 

Screenings
FULLDOME

New Images Festival, Paris April 5-9 2023

IDFA DOCLAB, Artis Planetarium, Amsterdam 18th Nov. 2022

Fulldome UK November 4- 12 2022

Dome Fest West, LA,   Oktober 6 - 9 2022 
FAB DIMENSIONAL, Berlin Sept 30 - Okt 2  2022
Siberia Fulldomefestival. Sept 13-16, 2022

Macon Film Festival, 18-21 august 2022
Fulldome Festival, Jena 12.05.2022

SAT Fest,  Montreal  8 - 12  march 2022
VR

Field of View 360 Filmfestival, Texas. 2024

LAVAL Virtual 2024

Suburbinale, Austria, 3 May 2023

Intervalli Festival Cinema, Padua, 23-26 Febr. 2023

Anima - Brussels  17-26 Febr. 2023

Kortfilmfest Leuven, 2-10 Dec 2022

Animateka, Ljubljana,  25 nov. - 4 dec. 2022

FICMA, Mexico, 22-26 nov 2022

VASTLAB  LA  Nov 3, 2022

TIAF - Tbilisi, Georgia, 2-5 Nov 2022
Anim'est, Bucharest, Romania, 7-12 oct 2022

Animatex, 25-29 sept,2022

Animafest Zagreb, 6-12 June 2022

'Migrations' exhibition, Virtual Museum of the Anthropocene,  april-july 2022

https://wma.museum/migracje-migrations/

River Film Festival, Italy, 1-12 June 2022

KABOOM Animation Festival, Amsterdam  28 march - 3 April 2022