Private Project

Sundowning

You have found yourself in the middle of a play but you can’t remember your lines and you’re not even sure of your character. Borne out of a family member's diagnosis and decline, Sundowning is a virtual reality film that explores the experience of having Alzheimer’s from a first-person perspective, giving the viewer a new understanding of this strange and isolating disease. The experience combines an embodied 360 video with theatre techniques and an interactive, higher order ambisonic soundscape, to create an unsettling play between virtuality, reality, imagination and memory.

  • Shivani Hassard
    Director
  • Vanessa Pope
    Director
  • Angela McArthur
    Director
  • Angela McArthur
    Writer
  • Shivani Hassard
    Writer
  • Anthony Adeane
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Virtual Reality, 360 Video
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 1, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    6,000 GBP
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Student Project:
    Yes
Director Biography - Shivani Hassard, Vanessa Pope, Angela McArthur

Shivani Hassard works as a filmmaker and directs, shoots and edits time-based and interactive media projects. Her projects include narrative film, documentary and immersive VR experiences, and she has shown work at Ars Electronica, London Film Festival, BFI Flare, Cheap Cuts Doc Fest, Dazed Digital and on gal-dem.com.

Angela McArthur is currently artist in residence within ARTEC at NTNU, Norway. In 2019 she was in residence at the Institut für Elektronische Musik (IEM) in Graz, working with the IKO loudspeaker. She is a practitioner, lecturer and PhD candidate, researching the aesthetics of distance in spatial sound. She's worked in studio, live and location environments. She draws from eco-feminist discourse and non-human onto-epistemologies.

Vanessa Pope designs immersive storytelling for recorded media and live performance. She also researches how performers deliver material to live audiences so their responsive systems can be used in new technologies. Vanessa was on the program committee for The Future of Storytelling with Augmented Reality creative challenge led by Snap Inc. for IMX 2020 and collaborated with BBC R&D to investigate actor movement for 360-videos.

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