About Real▪IMagined
This inaugural fulldome film festival is presented by the HP Digitarium at the Pierce Planetarium and the team at the Moody Innovation Institute. Working closely with Paris-based Diversion Cinema, which oversaw the first immersive competition at the Cannes Film Festival this past May, we curated the selection of nine extraordinary fulldome short films by award-winning international artists.
These immersive films explore themes including dreams and memories and the intricacies of sudden shifts within life trajectories. The combination of amazing visuals with original soundscapes and music creates highly personal experiences within the viewer.
This four-day film festival, incorporating performances by noted poets along with HPHS musicians, is divided into two components: the first two days are dedicated to selected HP upperclassmen, with the weekend showings open to HPISD staff, HPHS Juniors and Seniors, parents, and community members. Our open weekend seats are highly limited, so please register for your tickets as early as possible.
Real▪Imagined wouldn’t be possible without the generosity of La Fiesta de las Seis Banderas, HP Arts, and the Moody Foundation.
Program 1 - Inspired by the Past
CENOTAPH FOR NEWTON
France 2021 8 minutes
Director: Arnaud Desjardin
Created for the series, “Dream Builders,” THE CENOTAPH FOR NEWTON explores the Cenotaph for Isaac Newton, an utopian monument imagined in 1784 by Etienne-Louis Boullée as a grandiose and gigantic tribute to the famous scientist and to the philosophy of the Enlightenment.
THE INNER ISLAND
Germany 2022 6m25s
Director: Sergey Prokofyev
This short film was part of the “Tropicaliszt” co-op project in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar.
The tiny colored world arose on the basis of a music piece “Souvenir de Porto Rico” by the composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk, written in 1857 during a tour in Puerto Rico.
A combination of abstract environments, dynamic cameras and classical music increase our senses.
SUPREMATISM - The day before
Germany 2021 6 minutes
Director: Sergey Prokofyev
"The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings: 0.10” took place in Petrograd between 1915 and 1916, featuring 36 works by Kazimir Malevich and his associates. The name of the exhibition expresses the organizers' idea to mark the end of the Futuristic movement and the beginning of Suprematism.
This short film is an architectural and visual experiment based on the spatial compositions of the suprematic paintings from the exhibition “0,10”
THE MATERIAL OF MEMORIES
France 2021 5m15s
Directed by Léon Denise, Dorian Rigal
The visual journey of memories is possible in certain hypnosis or dream situations.
As an immersive film, THE MATERIAL OF MEMORIES provides the sensation of dream vision.
How does one visualize what is in the past or in the future?
What is absent from the present?
The film is a journey - a mental journey - that uses all the scales of the human gaze to memories, from the infinitely large to the smallest invisible.
Program 2 - Inspired by the Future
SUBLIME
Colombia 2023 9 minutes
Director: Jorge Bandera
SUBLIME reflects on transcendence after death, inspired by the Law of Conservation of Energy and Einstein's theory of relativity. It delves into the perpetual transformation of energy through natural elements, suggesting that life heralds the commencement of a new journey. Infused with the essence of nature, it vividly illustrates how life symbolizes the outset of an extraordinary voyage, transcending the confines of existence.
SWARM
Germany 2021 10 minutes
Director: Maarten Isaãk de Heer
Swarming is a behavioral phenomenon to survive, but more than often, it is a prelude to extinction.
Fly with the flock as they travel from Germany, over the Alps, to the Mediterranean Sea. Small birds migrate 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 view over landscapes of three-dimensional photocollages that show a part of Europe after climate change.
INTERRUPTED TRAJECTORIES
Canada 2024 3m56s
Director: Lydia Yakonowsky
In her second short film, Lydia Yakonowsky delves into the intricacies of sudden and involuntary shifts within projected life trajectories, mirroring the unpredictability of economic forecasting. Through a captivating visual narrative, she intertwines a succession of scattered data point and unnerving spirals, evoking a sense of change, disarray and flux, reflecting not only the dynamic nature of economic analysis but also how forecasting errors mirror the sudden shifts and complexities of real-life changes.
ENTROPY
Hungary 2023 5 minutes
Director: Limelight
Entropy is structured as a journey through the evolution of life, transitioning across a range of ecological levels in a series of interconnected chapters. From the nanoscale to the vastness of a planetary ecosystem, each chapter delves into different levels of existence, from the simplest forms to the most intricate complexities.
LULLABY
2023 5 minutes
Director: Sergei Kozintsev
LULLABY is a Ukrainian nursery rhyme. All the film’s graphics are made using neural networks.
“The Dream Passes by the Windows”
The Dream passes by the window,
And Sleep by the fence.
The Dream asks Sleep:
"Where should we rest tonight?"
Where the cottage is warm,
Where the tot is tiny,
There we will go,
And rock the child to sleep.
There we will sleep,
and will sing to the child:
Sleep, sleep, my little falcon,
Sleep, sleep, my little dove.