L'Île des morts
Isle of the Dead is a timeless journey, starting from an everyday apartment towards our final destination, guided by Charon, ferryman of the Underworld. This VR experience is a loose recreation of the eponymous work painted in 1883 by the Swiss symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin. The famous masterpiece also inspired a symphonic poem by Rachmaninov, which makes a perfect soundtrack to accompany the experience.
Benjamin Nuel: Born in 1981 in Saint-Étienne, France,Benjamin Nuel is graduated from the Arts Déco Strasbourg and from Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Since the start of his career, Benjamin goes from between traditional cinema and art of video games. His work HOTEL, coproduced by ARTE, has been shwocased in more than fifty international events. He made another videogame afterwards, The Reversal, and two short fiction films. In 2017, he directed Legacy, a Sci-Fi adventure VR film. Isle of the dead is his second VR piece.