SILENT DISCO

Synopsis

»Silent Disco« is a virtual reality experience in which viewers become part of a performance while watching three stereoscopic VR short films. The tension between the virtual party scenes of the three VR films and the physically tangible performance situation among the viewers in a kind of club plays a key role. The view from the outside reveals that although the seemingly isolated viewers are at different virtual parties, they are part of a shared physical party.
The first film takes the viewers into a mixture of club and elevator on the way down. Together with the other curious party guests, the viewers dance in an apocalyptic atmosphere on their way to the underworld. The second film inverts the voyeuristic gaze typical of cinema: The participants find themselves on a small round stage in an atmospheric strip club. How do the viewers relate to the room and the guests present? In the third black-and-white VR film, the viewers find themselves in a dark, abstract room. A self-playing piano and a fiddling Death provide the background music for a folkloric dance of death.