Minimum Mass
Love, loss, and black holes. Minimum Mass is the story of 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.
Minimum Mass takes place in a real-time, photorealistic computer generated story world and has been developed as an in-headset experience.
In Minimum Mass, how the participant interacts with the story can only be guided, not controlled. The design of the experience is inherently at odds with the agency of the participant. This is the core tension of virtual reality, and one which we find incredibly challenging and exciting because our experience of time is at the very centre of it.
General informations
- Director :
- Raqi Syed , Areito Echevarria
- Writer :
- Raqi Syed , Areito Echevarria
- Genres :
- Animation, Drama, Film noir
- Production companies :
- Floréal Films, Like Amber
- Financial partners :
- CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée)
- Language(s) :
- English (US)
Crew & cast
- Cast :
- Allan Henry , Carrie Thiel , Frankie Adams
- Visual effects supervisor :
- Sunny Teich
- Sound designer :
- Jimi Wilson
- Composer :
- Brendan Angelides
- Cinematographer :
- Raqi Syed
Awards
2020Festivals
20202019
2018