Heterotopias

Future Is Yours

Heterotopias


International Premiere
Szilvia Ruszev, Noa Kaplan / United States of America / 2019 / 6 min / Experimental
English

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Heterotopias is the first project to operate on Fauve, a brand-new VR headset that creates interactions with the immersive story through the user’s blinks and eye movements. Here, the system’s potential is used to support a fascinating reflection on space.

Heterotopias is a virtual reality work inspired by a Michel Foucault lecture in 1967, “Other spaces”. By blinking, viewers create real cinematic cuts and, hanging on a chair, they move through this very sensory experience which offers an interpretation of Foucault’s concept of heterotopia. A virtual foray into the French philosopher’s “spaces”: a garden, a well, a mausoleum…


Creation
Szilvia Ruszev, Noa Kaplan
Key collaborators
Kamia Williams (Producer), Jay Miskowiec (English Translation)
3D design
Noa Kaplan
Contact
USC
Sound
Szilvia Ruszev
Production
USC Jaunt Lab (Candace Reckinger)
With
Brooklyn-Bella -, Denise Griffin, Allie Costa
Supported by
USC Jaunt Lab, USC Meml Lab
International sales
USC (Szilvia Ruszev)