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XR Project 'A City of Foxes' Creates Emotional Bond With User
Sep 27, 2020
Winner of the XR financing market prize at this year’s NewImages Festival , the allegorical fairy tale “A City of Foxes” situates a live performance within a detailed, mythic landscape reminiscent of the work of Hayao Miyazaki and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.
After developing the project at Venice’s Biennale College Lab in 2018, director Nihaarika Negi partnered with Paris-based Tamanoir Immersive Studio , a startup dedicated to mixing new technologies with performing arts, to further shape this hybrid work.
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Designed for one to three users at a time, the 50-minute interactive experience thrusts participants into a fantasy world of epic ruins, casting them as anonymous, cloaked “flutterers,” sent to find a dying fox and retrieve its eventual remains. Played by a live performer in a motion capture suit, the fox engages the user in conversation, posing a series of pointed questions meant to foster deep connection.
“It’s the job of the performer to create this emotional bond,” said producer Rémi Large during the project’s pitch. “At the end of the experience you’re just sad that you have to leave the fox.”
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