End of night / nattens ende
Cinematic VR experience of the tormenting memories of a jewish man escape from Denmark to Sweden during WWII.
Status: Premiered at Venice Film Festival 78 / Year: 2021 / Genre: Historical fiction / Technique: Virtual Reality / Dialogue: Danish / English dubbed
You’re placed in the passenger seat in a rowboat in the middle of the ocean. An old man, Joseph, is sitting in front of you, rowing. He tells you the story about the night he escaped the German soldiers, and how he fought to bring his family with him. As his story unfolds the sea dissolves, streets and people emerge and you sail silently through his memories. But as the dawn begins to rise, the question is; who will make it to the END OF NIGHT?
End of Night is an artistic mix of advanced technologies such as photogrammetry and volumetric video blended together into a collage-like 3D universe. The elements are realistic in their expression, but at the same time fragmented as scraps of a painful recollection.
Director: David Adler
Produced By: Makropol
Producers: Mikkel Skov, Mads Damsbo
Scriptwriter: Hans Frederik Jacobsen
Art Director: Gustav Pontoppidan
Technical Director: Bastian Leonhardt Strube
Programmer: Oscar Louw
SUPPORTED BY
The Danish Film Institute & Den Vestdanske Filmpulje
AWARDS
VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 78 – Best Immersive Story
CPH PIX – The Crystal Ball
RED SEA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – Golden Yusr Immersive Award