Festivals:
Tribeca Film Festival, Immersive Non-Fiction Competition
VR NOW Awards, Best Immersive Cinema Nominee
Cannes Film Festival: Marché Du Film, XR3
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Beyond Reality XR
Jerusalem Design Week
ACM SIGGRAPH, Immersive Pavilion
Bystanding: The Feingold Syndrome
‘Bystanding: The Feingold Syndrome’ is an immersive interactive VR docufiction exploring the drowning and rescue of Israeli rowing champion Jasmine Finegold. In 2009, Feingold lost consciousness and capsized while rowing in Tel Aviv's Ha’Yarkon River. Jasmine stayed submerged for four and a half minutes. During that time, none of the dozens of spectators and passersby on the riverbank took any action to help her, until finally, one person did.
Using novel techniques of volumetric capture, photogrammetry, animations, and 360º videos, ‘Bystanding’ allows participants to embody bystanders’ point of view, listen to their thoughts and witness their deepest confessions from that day. Each bystander confession is experienced as a totally different memory from that day, providing a glimpse to this person’s “stream of consciousness”.
'Bystanding' generates a strong memory for participants, and aims to raise questions about our responsibilities towards people in distress, and specifically deals with "the bystander effect".
The experience was created by Nim Shapira (Director) and Roi Lev (Creative Producer). It is co-produced with German studio AnotherWorld VR (Max Sacker and Ioulia Isserlis) and Canadian studio KngFu.
‘Bystanding’ is supported by the Canada Media Fund (CMF) and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB), KAN (the Israeli public broadcaster), Mifal HaPais Council for the Culture and Arts, Gesher Multicultural Film Fund, and the Makor Foundation for Israeli Film and Television.
CAST (In alphabetical order):
Michael Moshonov (BBC’s “The Little Drummer Girl”), Kais Nashif (Best actor, Venice Film Festival 2018), Tsahi Halevi (Netflix’s “Fauda”), Nelly Tagar (“Zero Motivation”, 2014 Tribeca Festival Winner), Orly Zilbershatz ״(Broken Wings״, Berlin Film Festival), Yiftach Klein (“Fill the Void”, Venice Film Festival)