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Birdly - Paradise Lost

Swiss Premiere

Max Rheiner, Fabian Troxler, Gian Klainguti, Simon Pfaff / Switzerland / 2019 / 2 min / Animation
English

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Created by Zurich-based start-up SOMNIACS, Birdly returns to GIFF with a brand-new project. The “flying machine” has now become a “swimming machine”, turning us into sea turtles and showing us the beauty as well as the destruction of the aquatic ecosystem.

After buildings in San Francisco, New York and the Upper Jurassic, the third virtual reality experience produced by Swiss studio SOMNIACS invites us into an underwater journey. Birdly – Paradise Lost enables viewers to embody for a few minutes, a small sea turtle roaming freely around colorful coral reefs brimming with thousands of fish and other underwater creatures. A playful and deep experience that recalls the dangers of climate change and human activity on the coral reef ecosystem.

Creation

Max Rheiner, Fabian Troxler, Gian Klainguti, Simon Pfaff

Direction

Gian Klainguti, Fabian Troxler

Key collaborators

Max Rheiner (Concept), Fabian Troxler (Concept), Gian Klainguit (Concept), Simon Pfaff (Concept)

Scenario

Gian Klainguti

3D design

Fabian Troxler, Tobias Rohrwacher, Simon Pfaff

Contact

SOMNIACS

Interactive design

Fabian Troxler, Simon Pfaff, Tobias Rohrwacher

Animation

Laszlo Nyikos, Tobias Rohrwacher

Editing

Gian Klainguti

Sound

Simon Pfaff

Music

Cyril Boehler

Production design

Fabian Troxler

Production

Max Rheiner, Gian Klainguti

Co-production

SRG SSR (Sven Wälti), SRG SSR (Michael Brönnimann)

Executive Production

SOMNIACS (Max Rheiner)

With

Ella James, Jamie Jackson

Supported by

Pro Helvetia, MIGROS Pourcent Culturel, Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen – SRF

International sales

Lazar Tosic