Three virtual reality experiences not to be missed at the Court Métrange Festival 2024

Submitted on 23/09/2024

The Court Métrange Festival is about to make its big return in Rennes, in partnership for the first time with IRISA!

As an emblematic cultural event in Brittany for 20 years, the Court Métrange Festival stands out for its highlighting of short films of "genre" and its promotion of new cinematographic approaches.
For this edition, IRISA will be taking part in the Marché de l’Innovision (Innovision Market) on 28th and 29th September, the new space at Village Métrange dedicated to technological innovations in the field of images, to introduce people to the creative richness of virtual reality.

At the crossroads of art, imagination and technology, explore 3 VR projects led by two scientists from the HYBRID team: Valérie Gouranton, INSA Rennes associate professor, and Ronan Gaugne, University of Rennes research engineer, as well as Kevin Gohon, teacher-researcher associated with the Arts: practices and poetics team at University of Rennes 2, in collaboration with artists Alma Oskouei and Afshin Azizi, and students from INSA Rennes and University of Rennes 2.

Let yourself be surprised by these unprecedented experiences that reinvent the visual narrative by proposing an immersive and innovative approach, throwing the audience at the center of the action!
 

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Extrait de l'expérience VR Remember! avec une présentation dans un style dessiné de traits blancs sur fond noir avec des yeux géants et un sol en damier devant une porte

   © INSA Rennes

1. “Remember!”: A dive into the memory of a cyborg

The first creation to discover “Remember!” , is a digital work by the artists Alma Oskouei, an Iranian visual artist, and Afshin Azizi, an Iranian composer and multi-instrumentalist, as well as a group of computer science students from INSA Rennes supervised by Ronan Gaugne and Valérie Gouranton.
Exhibited at the last edition of RectoVRso festival in Laval Virtual, this creation invites us to dive into the mental universe of Line, a cyborg on the verge of amnesia. Through 3 supernatural sequences, explore multiple facets of his memory and find the memories that preserve their human heritage.

Valérie Gouranton, INSA Rennes associate professor, and her team of students: Nolhan Dumoulin - Jules Laplace-Treyture - Erwan Le-Boulaire - Prune Lepvraud - Ambre Leveille - Anouk Migliavacca - Adrien Schneider
 

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Poupée en 3D rousse avec des couettes portant une robe bleue dans une pièce sombre

   © INSA Rennes

2. Doll House: Escape to a haunted house

With Doll House, Valérie Gouranton and a second group of computer science students from INSA Rennes invite you to take part in a new kind of escape game in this second experience where VR is used to create a 3D supernatural game concept. Locked in a terrifying and oppressive atmosphere, find the key to escape from an abandoned place, as long as you take it one step at a time with the help of an old doll's house...

Valérie Gouranton, INSA Rennes associate professor, and her team of students: Dorian Humeau - Marceline Rozelaar - Emilie Levaique - Tino Imbrogno
 

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Paysage abstrait d'un ciel bleu agité d'éclairs blancs avec un pont jaune

© Léo Lecroq

3. Le Complexe du Nuage: A chaotic and poetic exploration

Finally, open yourself up to the unpredictable with Le Complexe du Nuage (Cloud Complex), an end-of-study Master 2 Digital Creation project at the University of Rennes 2, directed by Léo Lecroq and supervised by Ronan Gaugne and Kevin Gohon.
Explore the artistic potential of virtual reality: you have 15 minutes to solve the riddle of a strange cloud that keeps changing shape before dissipating! Immerse yourself in this unsettling universe and discover a random, chaotic world devoid of all logic.
 



Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th September, from 4pm to 9pm, at the Marché de l'Innovision in the Village Métrange, the Festival's main venue (in front of the Pathé cinema).

Free admission

Accessible to people with reduced mobility.
Magnetic induction loop for the hearing impaired.

➜ Take a look at the Festival program