Passenger

Synopsis

PASSENGER is a 360 degree stop-motion VR film that tells the story of arriving in a new country to live. Your taxi driver, himself a migrant to Australia, navigates the new terrain with you, acting as your guide while also revealing small parts of his own story. PASSENGER recreates and investigates the geographic and visual dislocation of arriving somewhere unfamiliar, and beginning the journey of finding a new home in a foreign land.

Director

Directors

Biography

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Isobel and Van are known for technologically adventurous, elaborately detailed animated storytelling through film and immersive installations. The dynamic collaboration between these two artists has produced four ambitious interactive animated artworks and four emotionally engaging stop-motion short films that have moved audiences all over the world.
The movement from immersive installation into VR is a natural trajectory for Isobel and Van. In Passenger (2019), the artists smoothly adapt the budding technology to their stop-motion techniques, creating a rich audio visual experience with narrative story-telling as the focus.

Filmography

Clara (2004), Were in My Dream (2010), It's a Jungle in Here (2011), Out in the Open (2016), Passenger (2019)

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Isobel KNOWLES
Van SOWERWINE

Credits

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Ambisonic Sound Design: Byron SCULLIN
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Foley: Gerry LONG, Scott HEMING
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Original Score: Mirko GUERRINI
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Compositing and Colour, Julia EGERTON

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