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.
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Ben FredericksDirector
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Alex RuhlProducer
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Project Type:Virtual Reality
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Genres:Sci-fi, thought experiment, ethics, art
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Runtime:15 minutes
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Completion Date:September 25, 2019
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Production Budget:50,000 GBP
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Cannes XR (Preview)
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Raindance Film Festival (World Premiere)London
United Kingdom
September 25, 2019
World Premiere
Official Selection, Nominated Best Debut -
Frequency FestivalLincoln
United Kingdom
October 23, 2019
Official Selection -
RamFestDerby
United Kingdom
November 3, 2019 -
Aesthetica Film FestivalYork
United Kingdom
November 6, 2019
Official Selection -
VR FestSão Paulo
United Kingdom
November 27, 2019
Official selection -
Storytelling in the 4th Industrial RevolutionCambridge
United Kingdom
November 25, 2019
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.