How do we build and tell virtual worlds today? How do we merge computer-generated imagery with human bodies in order to build alternative environments that better represent us, our identities and artistic interests?
In collaboration with the virtual production studio Appia, MA Media Design students addressed these questions through the production of mini-movies where they imagined alternative visions for the metaverse. From a feast made out of rotting fruits to fantastical stories on another planet to a place of burial for dead flowers, each produced movie offered new aesthetics for virtual worlds.
A selection of these movies was then selected and shown during the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF).
Students
Pauline Baldinetti
Ilhana Bešić
Benjamin Boulesteix
Audrey Délisse
Dorota Grajewska
Arthur Groebli
Raghid Jomaa
Salomé Kahn
Hugo Langlade
Emma Parente
Melina Reymondin
Andreia Rodrigues
Théotime Serre
Clément Vogelsperger
Assistants
Nicolas Baldran
Cyrus Khalatbari
Professors
Sabrina Calvo
Marie Dommenget
Laurent Novac
Partner
Appia Studio
Head of department
Alexia Mathieu
Scenographer
Studio Valentin Dubois