SAT Fest 2026 - Compilation of award-winning films

This film transposes the method of moments, a statistical technique, into the artistic realm. The visual language of statistics is diverted to create representations that no longer describe numerical data, but rather the cycles of life, the passage of time, and the resonance of nostalgia. Through these reinvented graphs, the artist illustrates a universal human experience.

About Lydia Yakonowsky
Lydia Yakonowsky is a Canadian artist based in Montreal. Her practice explores the use of real-time and immersive technologies, through fulldome creation and live performances. Trained as an economist, she reappropriates statistical visual language to question the notion of utility, a central principle of classical economic thought, by transforming the market’s data and models into artistic objects. Her immersive works have been presented at SAT Fest, Mutek (Montreal), as well as Istanbul, Dubai, Taipei, Tokyo, Paris and Shanghai.

A 3D/360 reinterpretation of the 2D animated short Crux (2017), combining drawn-on film and digital animation.

About Alexandre Roy
Experimental animation filmmaker and digital artist based in Montreal, Since 1999, Alexandre Roy has worked as a writer, director and motion designer for TV and web, as well as technical animation specialist at the NFB. He is currently pursuing a master's degree in art and digital design at NAD-UQAC.

Inspired by Marc Chagall’s Biblical Message cycle, this fulldome work transforms paintings into a panoramic, dreamlike world. Moving between Eden, hospitality, and celestial realms, hybrid beings and looping gestures evoke an eternal voyage across time. Created from nearly 300 watercolor drawings, the piece explores spirituality and the fluid boundaries between inner worlds and imagined landscapes.

About Jérémy Griffaud
Jérémy Griffaud is an artist who explores the question of the spectator in hybrid realities, through devices that blend the virtual and the real. Using digitized watercolors, video game engines, virtual reality headsets and monumental projections, he creates immersive, interactive environments. Jérémy holds a Master’s degree in Art, obtained in 2017 at Pavillon Bosio, l'École Supérieure d'Arts Plastiques de la Ville de Monaco. The public has been able to experience his work in numerous artistic venues, including the Musée National Marc Chagall in Nice, La Panacée in Montpellier, the Four Domes Museums in Wroclaw, and the Wang Xiaoi Art Museum in Shanghai.

A lone climber scales endless concrete stairs in a surreal world, testing the fine line between ambition and self-loss.

About Agata Staszczuk & Creative Planet
Creative Planet is an award-winning production studio that specializes in producing immersive fulldome shows and VR animation. It is one of the first companies in central Europe focusing directly on 360 filmmaking. Agata Staszczuk holds a Master’s degree in Architecture and is now devoted to stop-motion animation and 3D animation. She has worked on a wide range of projects, including video games, commercials, animated series, and feature films. UP marks her directorial debut.

Elements of Air is a dreamlike journey through the atmospheres of planets in formation. Ice, smoke, bubbles, and stars juxtapose materialities to test the limits between micro and macro, abstract and real. The fusion of images and sound weaves a meditative journey through a field of free associations, where expanding galaxies, celestial bodies, bubbling geological layers, cells in bipartition, and microscopic creatures coexist in parallel cosmic times. The audience is invited to be immersed beyond the limits of this world, while reflecting on the destiny of our mothership.

About Gabriela Bila, Holger Prang, Ribs+Seixas
Gabriela Bilá is a multimedia artist and researcher in urban futures at the MIT Media Lab, exploring the impact of emerging technologies on cities. An architect by training, Ribs combines art and information through documentaries, short films, interactive installations and advertising, while Seixas, a self-taught visual artist from Brasília, works across animation and multimedia installations. Sound artist Holger Prang creates spatial compositions blending organic, mineral and digital sounds, collaborating internationally to connect audiences through sound.

A mystical being, neither man nor god, traverses a series of worlds suspended between life and memory. Guided by an instinctive quest, he slides from painting to painting in search of a forgotten harmony. Each world represents a universal emotion, a phase of existence, or a collective archetype. The viewer, immersed in these visions, becomes a witness to the Traveler's inner metamorphosis.

About Fantastik Obsolete
Fantastik Obsolete is a Montreal-based collective formed by Pascal Lavallée, Nicolas Lachance Brais, and Killian Pichon. In 2024, the collective releases its first film, Biomes Voyages, marking the beginning of an in-depth exploration of ambient storytelling, spatialization, and the visual innovation inherent to dome formats. Fantastik Obsolete develops an aesthetic that blends sci-fi influences, environmental sensibility, and experimental writing, while working with strong rigor on mapping and 360° continuity.

One day, in a car, GAŁGAŁ (Berlin-based musician and sound designer Michał Krajczok) and Tote Tiere Maarten were listening to the track Angst from the album Ich schwöre ich hab Angst, a work that blends composition and improvisation through a singular approach to modular synthesis. In that moment, Tote Tiere Maarten had a vision. He saw the music and understood what he had to create.

About Tote Tiere Maarten
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.