HUSH / Havfolket kalder mørknet vand
Director: Vibeke Bryld
Hush is an immersive Virtual Reality experience rooted in the Northern myths of the merpeople, who lured sailors and longing souls to the sea.
Like the lost ones of the past, you begin by the seaside. The world around you dissolves as you hear the calling from the sea, and you are submerged in a suggestive underwater world, where the distinction between reality and imagination, man and nature, disappears.
Hush is a stand-alone VR piece, but it is also a companion piece to the hybrid documentary film Elsewhere, also directed by Vibeke Bryld and supported by New Danish Screen at the Danish Film Institute, which is based in the same universe as Hush. Elsewhere premiered at CPH:DOX 2021.
PRODUCTION FACTS
Duration: 12 mins
Year: 2020
Non-interactive
No dialogue
Produced by: Final Cut for Real (DK) in collaboration with Midtjysk 3D Service (DK)
Type: Room Scale 6DOF
Developed on: HTC Vive Pro
Tested with: HTC Vive, HTC Vive Pro, Oculus Rift
PC minimum specs: Intel i7, 16GB RAM, RTX 2060, Windows 10
Directed by: Vibeke Bryld
Produced by: Maria Kristensen
CG Artist: Lars Hemmingsen Nørgaard
Production Designer: Elin Maria Johansson
Production Company: Final Cut for Real, Denmark
Sound Design: Mads Michelsen
Lead Programmer: Felipe Dacal Fragoso
Programmer: Oscar Louw
CG: Mads Vadsholt, Elisabet Hau, Lars Hemmingsen Nørgaard
Animation: Philip Piaget Rodriguez
Additional Animation: Lars Hemmingsen Nørgaard
Production Manager: Esther Nissen
Executive Producers: Heidi Elise Christensen, Signe Byrge Sørensen
Sound consultant: Sune Kaarsberg
Composer: Signe Lykke
Supported by:
The Danish Film Institute, Danish Film Directors, FAF (Danish trade union for film & TV workers), The Danish Arts Council, North Denmark Region
HUSH is part of the 2019 DOX:LAB at CPH:DOX and was pitched at the 2019 Venice Film Festival VR Gap Financing Market
CONTACT
FINAL CUT FOR REAL
Producer Maria Kristensen
maria@final-cut.dk - +45 4062 6690
PUBLICITY & PRESS
Publicist Sofie Lykke Steenstrop
sofiestenstrop@gmail.com
AWARDS
AniDox:VR Awards 2020 - Most Innovative Work
Firm Film Festival 2022, Mexico - Best VR / 360
ART INSTALLATION / EXHIBITIONS
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Bibiana, Hirtshals - July 18, 2022 - February 19, 2023
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PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
Thy Museum, Vorupør - May 22-August 22 2021
Nikolaj Kunsthal / Nikolaj Art Centre, Copenhagen - October 9-December 9, 2020
FESTIVALS
Venice Film Festival 2020 - In Competition, VR Expanded (World Premiere)
AniDox:VR Awards 2020 - Winner: Most Innovative Work
Raindance Immersive 2020 - Nominated: Best Documentary Experience, Best Animation Experience
Ji.hlava Int. Documentary Film Festival 2020, Czech Republic - Official Selection
London Film Week 2020. UK - Official Selection
Lumière Awards, Stereopsia 2020 - In Competition
FIVARS 2021, Canada - In Competition
Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen 2021, Belgium - In Competition
Atlanta Film Festival 2021, USA - In Competition
Venice Fine Arts Film Festival 2021, USA - In Competition
SIGGRAPH 2021 - Official Selection
Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2021, UK - Official Selection
Kaohsiung Film Festival 2021, Taiwan - Official Selection
Beijing Int. Film Festival 2021, China - Official Selection, Panorama
Guanajuato International Film Festival 2021, Mexico - Official Selection
Vilnius Documentary Film Festival 2021, Lithuania - Official Selection
VastLab Experimental Film Festival 2021, USA - Official Selection
Digital Media Fest 2021, Italy - Finalist
Alexandre Trauner Art Film Festival 2021, Hungary - Official Selection
DOK Leipzig 2021, Germany - Official Selection & Installation on location
Lusca Film Festival 2021, Puerto Rico - Official Selection
Riga Film Festival 2021, Latvia - Special XR Case Study + Screening
FIPADOC 2022, France - Official Selection
KO:SH Film Fest 2022, Albania - Official Selection
Firm Film Festival 2022, Mexico - In Competition