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Directed by Charlie Shackleton, Richard Misek and Melbourne based Oscar Raby, the experimental hybrid video essay uses virtual reality to pull the audience into the images, instead of merely inviting... LEARN MORE The post A Machine for Viewing at the MIFF. appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.

In this talk we explore the creative, technical, cultural and collaborative practice of creating VR from personal histories for this moving new work. A Thin Black Line is an immersive VR experience that follows one family in the aftermath of the bombing of Darwin in 1942, when half the population fled believing a Japanese invasion was imminent. Among them was Indigenous filmmaker Douglas Watkin’s mother, just five-years old at the time. Director Douglas Watkin, VRTOV's VR director Oscar Raby, artist Vernon Ah Kee and lead 3D artist Kalonica Quigley shared behind-the-scenes footage and early drawings from their unique journey bringing oral storytelling to digital life through graphic and game design. See A Thin Black Line free from 3 March in the Untold Australia VR Showcase in our permanent exhibition Screen Worlds. About The Speakers Douglas Watkin Brisbane-based Indigenous filmmaker Douglas Watkin was born in Cairns, Far North Queensland. His broadcasting and filmmaking career began in television doing small news reports and producing various corporate videos, and has progressed to feature films, broadcast series and multimedia works for a range of clients and audiences. Douglas has been actively working in the film and television industry for over twenty years, including producing and directing multiple series for ABC and NiTV. Oscar Raby Oscar Raby is an award-winning multimedia artist and Creative Director of independent digital production studio VRTOV. His Virtual Reality documentary Assent (2013), about the Chilean dictatorship, has been exhibited world-wide including screening at Sundance New Frontier, IDFA DocLab and Sheffield Doc/Fest where it received the Audience Choice Award for Cross-platform. Kalonica Quigley Kalonica is a 3D Artist and Game Developer who has developed award-winning games with small teams and independently. She currently works as Lead 3D Artist at VRTOV, an independent studio that crafts virtual reality experiences at the borderline of film and games. Vernon Ah Kee Born in Far North Queensland and currently living in Brisbane, Vernon is a member of the Kuku Yalandji, Waanji, Yidinji and Gugu Yimithirr peoples. Vernon’s multi-faceted practice includes works that range from large-scale drawings of his ancestors to hard-hitting text-based works and installations. In his work Ah Kee fuses the history and language of colonisation with contemporary black/white political issues in an ongoing investigation of race, colour and politics. Through clever puns and plays on words and objects Ah Kee fuses the history and language of colonisation with contemporary black/white political issues to expose degrees of underlying racism in Australian society.

This episode features the first event of the 2017 Digital Writers Festival, a live conversation about the future of storytelling with Brooke Maggs, Misha Myers, Oscar Raby and Seb Chan, moderated by the festival’s Artistic Director, Izzy Roberts-Orr. The Future of Storytelling was held at ACMI in partnership with ACMI Conversations and Monash University. You can watch the full event here: http://2017.digitalwritersfestival.com/event/dwf17-launch-the-future-of-storytelling/ Our theme music is ‘Please’ by Huntly. Brooke Maggs is a freelance narrative designer and writer for games, VR and other creative industries. Brooke presented her project ‘The Gardens Between’, a breathtaking puzzle game where best friends find themselves in a surreal world of garden islands. Find out more about Brooke here: https://brookemaggs.com/ Dr. Misha Myers is a Senior Lecture in the Centre for Theatre and Performance at Monash University, and tells stories of place through digital, interactive and located media. Misha presented her recent work ‘Nobody’s Ocean’, a transmedia performance game for smartphone that sent audience on journeys through Melbourne’s streets cast as Homer’s Odysseus. Find out more about Misha here: http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/misha-myers/ Oscar Raby is the Creative Director of the Melbourne-based Virtual Reality studio VRTOV. He is the Director of VR experiences ‘Assent’, ‘The Turning Forest’ and ‘Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel’. Oscar presented ‘The Turning Forest’, a real-time CR VR experience that invites audiences into a magical space of imagination. Find out more about Oscars work for VRTOV here: http://vrtov.com/ Seb Chan is ACMI’s Chief Experience Officer. Prior to this he led the digital renewal and transformation of the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York (2011-2015). Seb presented his digital transformation of the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum.

How can traditional screen content creators utilise their skills in the contemporary screen form of VR? Moderator Christy Dena (Writer-Designer-Director at Universe Creation) and VR content creators including Oscar Raby and Katy Morrison VRTOV, Nathan Anderson StartVR, Dan Koerner Sandpit and Michael Beets PLaTO Reality share the creative possibilities and complexities of writing, shooting and editing VR for dramatic and meaningful effect.

Pixar's story supervisor Matthew Luhn, National Theatre's head of digital development Toby Coffey and virtual reality director Oscar Raby give their view on the storytelling techniques.