Samsara Ep.1

Synopsis

Samsara is a VR film that the protagonist escapes the earth after the global nuclear destruction to find a new planet to live on but finds that they always return to it to learn the profound lesson of life.

Director

Directors

Biography

Hsin-Chien Huang, a new media artist, is adept at combing VR, interactive installations, performing arts, and power machinery to explore greater possibilities for human life through technology. He also is a distinguished professor in the Department of Design at National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU). In recent years, Huang’s revolutionary VR works have attracted international attention and won a variety of awards. His VR feature film “La Camera Insabbiata”, made in collaboration with Laurie Anderson, the godmother of American avant-garde music., won the Best VR Experience Award at the 74th Venice Film Festival in 2017. “Bodyless” won an Honorable Mention at the 2020 Ars Electronica Festival and the Golden Mask, the highest honor, at the Newimages Festival in Paris. His outstanding international performance continued in 2021, when his new work Samsara won the Jury Award at the Texas SXSW Festival in the United States and Grand Prize for the Best VR Narrative in the XR category at the Cannes Film Market in France.

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HUANG Hsin-Chien

Credits

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Music: Jason BINNICK
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Project Manager: Chung-Hsien CHEN
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Programming: Wei-Chieh CHIU, Hua-Lun WU, Chun-Yen YU, Pei-Yang YEH
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Concept Design: Guan-Yi LI, Zu-Wei CHEN
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ADR: Chiao-ChiehLU, Dumile Dlamini
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Special Thanks: Chao-Hsuan HUNG, Yi-Ling CHOU, Indigenous Peoples Cultural Development Center
VR FILM LAB Credits
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Kaohsiung Film Archive VR FILM LAB
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Director: Meng-Yin YANG
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Deputy Director: Hao-Jie HUANG
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Head of Production Planning Department: Grace Huai-Chin LEE
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Production Coordinator: Sebox Wu HUNG
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International Distribution: Min-Wei KUO
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Press Manager: Wei-Law WANG

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