SAT Fest 2024 - Award-winning films

This tiny world arose on the basis of a piece of music Souvenir de Porto Rico by composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk written from 1857 during a tour in Puerto Rico. Inside the architectural space that is constantly changing with movement, accompanied by a complex musical rhythm, surrounded by illusions, the viewer becomes a part of the virtual environment.

About Sergey Prokofyev :
The main focus of his work is the exploration new ways of architectural communications tools through immersive video. He tries to use a number of cinematic methods of incorporating the temporal dimension into the architectural presentation. Dividing the visual experience into spaces, movements and action, and then reorganizing them in a sequence, which in turn generate different stories.

A playful celebration of the connection between sound and image: a live choir improvised to colorful rotoscoped animation in this immersive fulldome film created in a cross-disciplinary collaboration at Towson University.

About Lynn Tomlinson :
Lynn Tomlinson is a professor at Towson University, an award-winning director and animator whose short films have screened around the world at venues including the Museum of Modern Art, The National Gallery, The Pompidou Center, and at prestigious international film festivals. Excited by the shared immersive potential of the fulldome space, she has been developing and producing collaborative animation projects and participatory workshops for fulldome production.

Over the course of a single spring and summer, the artist made 3D photograms of all of the dead creatures he encountered in his direct environment. Their sometimes semi-decomposed bodies were brought back to life in a virtual paradise, so they can dance with a contemporary Adam and Eve in a of twigs, leaves, bark and other dead organic material. This living tableau of cadavers goes beyond good and evil, simply illustrating the same biology that governs us all.

About Maarten Isaak de Heer :
Maarten Isaäk de Heer is a Berlin-based animation artist. Besides his commissioned work, he also produces independent animation. His works explore new forms such as installations of animated paintings, 360°, Fulldome, VR, lenticular print and animated wildlife documentary. In 2020 he started Menetekel Film; a production company with a focus on bad omens.

"Protist Rhapsody" invites viewers to explore the blurred boundary between the digital and the organic through the dance of a digital entity inspired by the Physarum Polycephalum. This artistic journey meditates on the existential struggle of this entity, offering a reflection on adaptation and individuality, while evoking fundamental questions on human existence.

About Uncharted Limbo :
Founded in London in September 2020, the Uncharted Limbo collective is specialized in large scale Interactive Art installations, Computational Design and Manufacturing and real-time simulations, Virtual and Augmented Reality, 3D Animation and Visual Effects. The collective collaborates closely with choreographers, musicians and scientists to create diverse digital artworks across a broad range of scales. Their goal is to use computers to craft magic, build imaginary worlds and tell stories exploring the relationships between humans, technology and nature.

Combining video game elements, spatial soundscape, and transmedia storytelling, FEED 3.0 takes the audience on an immersive audiovisual journey in a panopticon-like complex. The project aims to construct an immersive and interactive environment that invites the audience to critically observe and question their everyday living situation in a post-digital age.

About IMUU :
IMUU is an artist collective that utilizes light as paint and music as dialogue to create an episodic narrative about a futuristic dystopia. The team consists of animator, composer, directors and creative technologists doing experiments in creative expressions via VR/AR, interactivity, and performance in transformative physical or virtual spaces.

Oneiric journey of imaginary world that brings viewer closer to subconsciousness. Unforgettable trip trough symbols, dreams.

About Ari Dykier :
Ari Dykier is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Poland. He has participated in various festivals and events around the world.His work draws on the traditions of surrealist animation, as well as a wide range of artistic genres. Through his visuals created from vintage illustrations, he attempts to recreate the experience of dream and dreamlike reality, drawing inspiration from fairy tales, films, paintings, books and music from childhood. A self-taught animator, Dykier uses digital methods to create his content, alongside traditional hand-drawn animation.