Category: Self

Polish premiere of VR Self on the Immersion Festival in Warsaw

The Polish premiere of Patryk Jordanowicz and Tadeusz Chudy’s VR ‘Self’ will take place during the Immersion Festival in Warsaw on 11-12 December.

How does a mentally ill person feel? How does he or she perceive the world? Or perhaps the division between healthy and mentally ill people does not exist at all? For the creators of the project, their interest in creating photographic and cinematic images has for years gone hand in hand with an attempt to understand and be open to the world of mental issues.

“Self”, by design, is intended to be a powerful and memorable immersive experience for the viewer. From the experience, which is conceived as an experience, comes an understanding of otherness. Understanding, in turn, creates tolerance. The visual and aural stimuli of this project are merely a pathway, a tool to generate emotions in the viewer that are similar to the state of those affected by mental illness. The creators want to evoke a state of contemplation, melancholy and compassion in the viewer. “Self” deals with an extremely sensitive subject, which is why it has been created from the beginning with the participation of people who deal with mental health on a daily basis.

The story concept of ‘Self’ is based on a mosaic structure. The stories presented are memories from different stages of the healing process of former patients, and their real silhouettes are set in a minimalist 3D environment. The flashbacks materialise in the form of voice-over commentaries, and the use of ambisonic sound exposes the properties of the category that is cinematic VR.

The VR experience exhibition and VR cinema screenings take place at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw on 11-12 December 2022 from 10 a.m – 7 p.m
Admission is free of charge.

For more information follow the link.

Self – understanding the otherness

How does the mentally ill person feel? How does he or she see the world? Or does the distinction between healthy and mentally ill people not exist at all? For the creators of the project, their interest in creating photographic and cinematic images has for years gone hand in hand with an attempt to understand and be open to the world of mental issues.

“Self”, by design, is intended to be a powerful and memorable immersive experience for the viewer. From the experience, comes an understanding of otherness. Understanding, in turn, creates tolerance. The visual and aural stimuli of this project are merely a pathway, a tool to generate emotions in the viewer that are similar to the state of those affected by mental illness. The creators want to evoke a state of contemplation, melancholy and compassion in the viewer. “Self” deals with an extremely sensitive subject, which is why it has been created from the beginning with the participation of people who deal with mental health on a daily basis.

The story concept of ‘Self’ is based on a mosaic structure. The stories presented are memories from different stages of the healing process of former patients, and their real silhouettes are set in a minimalist 3D environment. The flashbacks materialise in the form of voice-over commentaries, and the use of ambisonic sound exposes the properties of the category that is cinematic VR.

Patryk Jordanowicz – cinematographer, director. Studied Film Studies at the Jagiellonian University and Film and Television Picture Production and Photography at WRiTV U?. Cinematographer of many documentaries and feature films, he has worked hundreds of hours on TV series, commercials, music videos. In 2016, together with director Jacek Naglowski, he shot one of Europe’s first 3D VR music videos in live action / CG technique for the band Loa Frida. In the following years, he was the cinematographer of acclaimed VR experiences, these include the music documentary Smolik/ Kev Fox on the road, directed by Pawe? Orwat, and the VR adaptation of the theatre play Biesy, directed by Natalia Korczakowska and VR adaptation by Jacek Nag?owski. In 2019, as part of the College Cinema Biennial as co-director and cinematographer, he produced the VR experience “Whispers” with Jacek Nag?owski, which premiered at the Venice Biennale and won the Special Award at the Cinergia festival for the best Polish VR in the documentary category. “Whispers” also received the Organisers’ Special Award at the Lublin Film Festival and the Open Frame Award at the goEast Film Festival 2020.

Tadeusz Chudy – cameraman, photographer. Studied philosophy and film theory at the Jagiellonian University and film and television image production and photography at the Radio and Television Faculty of the University of Silesia.

Self – a journey into the human psyche

How does a mentally ill feel? How does he perceive the world? Or maybe a division into people healthy and mentally ill doesn’t exist at all? For the makers the creation of film and photographic image has been accompanied by an attempt to understand and openness to the world of mental issues for years. When both of these worlds (film and the world of psychology) have the opportunity to meet and find understanding on an artistic level – ideas such as the SELF (dir. Patryk Jordanowicz, Tadeusz Chudy) project arise, to which the audience will be invited through the audiovisual medium of VR.

SELF, by definition, will be strong and sunk for the viewer in memory of immersion experience. And from experience, which is understood as experience, comes an understanding of otherness, while understanding creates tolerance. No other medium allows the viewer to participate in such a way through audiovisual means, but also above all in spatial terms – distance from the object, enclosure, open space, willingness to touch. Visual and sound stimuli of this project are just a path, a tool to generate emotions similar to those of people affected by mental illness. The creators want to callin the viewer a state of contemplation, melancholy and compassion. SELF addresses an extremely delicate topic, which is why we create it from the beginning with the participation of people dealing with mental health on a daily basis. VR technology is the most perfect way to transfer the viewer to the mind and body of a mentally ill person and is able to express all of assumptions most fully.

The SELF story concept is based on a mosaic structure. The presented stories are memories from different stages of the healing process of former patients, and their real-life silhouettes will be set in a minimalistic 3D environment. The retrospectives will materialize as voice-over commentaries, and the use of ambisonic sound will expose the properties of the category, which is cinematic VR.

Materials showing sketches of the three-dimensional environment
Materials showing sketches of the three-dimensional environment
Materials showing sketches of the three-dimensional environment
Materials showing sketches of the three-dimensional environment