From May 30 to June 1, 2024, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) connects with the EPFL Pavilions to present anticipatory science-fiction works from yesterday and today that decrypt humanity’s relationship with its social, architectural and technological environment. These works resonate with the exhibition  Cyber Physical: Architecture in Real Time.

The program includes three open-air feature films and an immersive experience to be discovered in the GIFF XR Roadshow caravan.

XR ROADSHOW PROGRAM

30.05-01.06.2024 | 12h-21h
SHADOWTIME
DENIZ TORTUM, SISTER SYLVESTER | 2023 | NL, TR, US | 15’ | VR | VO. EN

The opportunity to explore virtual worlds wasn’t something invented in the 2010s: the original headsets appeared in 1968 with Ivan Sutherland’s Sword of Damocles, for the first time offering wearers the chance to project themselves outside of reality. Become a spectator of this story of technology and a new era of live experiences. Take control of an experimental time capsule that will transport you back to the origins of virtual reality and the birth of a new imagination, to better understand its full potential and question the current world about its future.

OPEN AIR PROGRAM

THRUSADAY 30.05.2024 | 21:30
PAPRIKA
KON SATOSHI | 2006 | JP | 90 | VO. JP | ST. FR

In the future, a new psychotherapeutic treatment called PT has been invented. Thanks to a machine called the DC Mini, it is possible to enter patients’ dreams and record them in order to plumb the depths of thought and the unconscious. While the process is still in the testing phase, one of the DC Mini’s prototypes is stolen, creating panic among the scientists who developed this little revolution.

FRIDAY 31.05.2024 | 21:30
HIGH RISE
BEN WHEATLEY | 2015 | GB | 119 | VO. EN | ST. FR

Dr Robert Laing, seeking anonymity, moves into a new flat in a barely completed tower block near London, but he soon discovers that his neighbours, obsessed by a strange rivalry, have no intention of leaving him in peace. He soon falls foul of them, and as he struggles to maintain his social position, his manners and sanity begin to deteriorate along with the building.

SATURDAY 01.06.2024 | 21:30
BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT
RIDLEY SCOTT | 1982 | US | 117 | VO. EN | ST. FR

In the year 2019, an ex-policeman turned private detective, Rick Deckard, is called back into service to hunt down human-looking robots called “replicants.” Deckard must eliminate four of them hiding in Los Angeles.

PRACTICAL INFO

XR ROADSHOW @EPFL
30.05 – 01.06 | 12h -21h

Place Cosandey
EPFL, Lausanne

Free entry

OPEN AIR @EPFL
30.05 – 01.06 | 21h30

Place Cosandey
EPFL, Lausanne

In case of rain:
MED 0 1418 BUILDING

Free entry