Minimum Mass New Zealand Premiere at Doc Edge Festival
The award-winning VR experience premiered at the 2021 edition of Doc Edge Festival, to be held between 28 May–11 July.
Trailer: Minimum Mass
The festival will kick off on 28 May with the Doc Edge Forum, and Minimum Mass Directors Raqi Syed and Areito Echevarria will participate in the roundtable discussion, Beyond Reality: XR. They will discuss the growth, applications, and boundaries being broken in the places beyond 2D. You can buy a Forum pass here.
Starting on 3 June, physical installations of Minimum Mass are open to the public in Auckland and Wellington. Please see the XR Exhibition programme for the latest details on location and registration.
Minimum Mass, a VR film from Raqi Syed and Areito Echevarria (respectively programme director and senior lecturer for the Master of Design Technology), is the story of a couple who experience a series of miscarriages and come to believe their children are being born in another dimension. Set in contemporary Rotorua, New Zealand, and the speculative world of black holes, it is a 20-minute interactive narrative virtual reality.