Uku Pacha - Modular VR
In an old van crossing the Andes, three unknown passengers share a secret. A person has committed suicide, the victim of false news spread on social media, and someone blames them for it. You are the fourth passenger and witness of their journey through the Uku Pacha seeking to return the natural order, the order of the Andean worldview. Each trip is a different story, a recurring dream where events never happen in the same way or in the same order: an opportunity for salvation or condemnation.
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Diego BonillaDirectorA Space of Time, Accidental Occurrence, Big Data
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Helena GalánWriter
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Mario Vera LoorProducer
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Project Title (Original Language):Uku Pacha
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Project Type:Virtual Reality, Interactive Film, 360 Video
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Average Runtime:14 minutes 33 seconds
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Variable Runtime Details:There are hundreds of constructions of the VR narrative online @ https://www.ukupacha.info/information Viewers use an interactive lever to choose the length of the experience they want to watch and a VR film of that length will be delivered.
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Completion Date:October 10, 2021
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Production Budget:25,000 USD
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Country of Origin:Ecuador
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Language:Spanish
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Student Project:No
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Vancouver International Film FestivalVancouver, BC
Canada
October 4, 2021
World Premiere
Immersive Category -
LUSCA Fantastic Film FestSan Juan
Puerto Rico
October 20, 2021
Puerto Rico Premiere -
Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality StoriesMississagua
Canada
October 15, 2021 -
Ann Arbor Film FestivalAnn Arbor, MI
United States
March 22, 2022
US Premiere -
Short. Sweet. Film Fest.Cleveland, OH
United States
February 23, 2022
Best Virtual Reality Film -
Florida Film FestivalMaitland, Florida
United States
April 8, 2022 -
River Film FestivalPadova
Italy
June 1, 2022
Italian Premiere -
Philadelphia Independent Film FestivalPhiladelphia
United States
June 6, 2022 -
Humboldt International Film FestivalArcata
United States
April 18, 2022
Honorable Mention -
The Fine Arts Film FestivalVenice
United States
June 10, 2022 -
Los Angeles Latino Film FestivalLos Angeles
United States
June 1, 2022 -
deadCenter Film FestivalOklahoma City
United States
Honorable Selection -
Festival EcraRio de Janeiro
Brazil
July 1, 2022 -
Inca Imperial International Film FestivalLima
Peru
May 12, 2022
Over time, Diego Bonilla's creative work has focused on the development of hypermedia to achieve valid forms of expression in both poetry and audiovisual narratives. His poetic work includes the reconstruction of meaning through changes at the grammatical level and the appropriate reconstruction of meaning through different sequencing. His cinematographic work is based on the use of programming for the variable editing of narratives, thereby offering different versions of a story based on different characters and/or the possibility of altering or shortening the length of the audiovisual experience. His work also includes the extensive use of photographic virtual reality, as well as cinematic virtual reality. His work has received academic awards, such as the Syracuse University's Graduate School Doctoral Award, and artistic awards at the Moscow International Film festival and Premios Latino in Spain.
Modular filmmaking entails producing a film and authoring a computer program that will edit it based on its story and the viewer's preferences.
Achieving this requires producing a film with hundreds of narrative modules meant to be placed on a larger piece, creating metadata for all the content, and coding a program that first rebuilds the story’s narrative and then produces the film's media to obtain a single distributable file.
This generative approach allows viewers to alter the narrative in significant ways, like changing the duration, establishing the focus on a specific character or providing different narrative sequences with varied emphases, among other possibilities.