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Playing God

Playing God is an interactive Virtual Reality thought experiment that lets you imagine you are the captain of a space station, a space station suddenly presented with a humanitarian crisis. It challenges its audience with a series of scenarios and questions based it’s upon its narrative to explore how the audience would deal with a humanitarian crisis themselves.

  • Ben Fredericks
    Director
  • Alex Ruhl
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Virtual Reality
  • Genres:
    Sci-fi, thought experiment, ethics, art
  • Runtime:
    15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    September 25, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    50,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Cannes XR (Preview)
  • Raindance Film Festival (World Premiere)
    London
    United Kingdom
    September 25, 2019
    World Premiere
    Official Selection, Nominated Best Debut
  • Frequency Festival
    Lincoln
    United Kingdom
    October 23, 2019
    Official Selection
  • RamFest
    Derby
    United Kingdom
    November 3, 2019
  • Aesthetica Film Festival
    York
    United Kingdom
    November 6, 2019
    Official Selection
  • VR Fest
    São Paulo
    United Kingdom
    November 27, 2019
    Official selection
  • Storytelling in the 4th Industrial Revolution
    Cambridge
    United Kingdom
    November 25, 2019
Director Biography - Ben Fredericks

Ben Fredericks (1982, Nottingham UK) is a visual artist who works predominantly in moving image, producing artworks that are focused on concerns relating to ethics. His work is highly influenced by cinema and narrative structures in storytelling. Fredericks’ produces his cinematic work through an ever-changing interdisciplinary creative group, which brings together a wide variety of artists and professionals from across digital society.

Born in Nottingham to a Yorkshire mother and Muslim father, whose family immigrated to Britain in 1960 to escape apartheid in South Africa, he relates much of his interest in ethics and equality to the mixed and diverse nature of his upbringing.

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