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La Biennale di Venezia - Biennale College Cinema
Why do we struggle to get away from imminent danger?
Vajont is an interactive first-person VR experience situated in an Italian valley of the same name. The story takes place a few hours before a disaster which is known as one of the biggest tragedies to befall post-WWII Italy. On 9th October 1063, a landslide slipped into an artificial lake, generating a catastrophic billow that almost completely destroyed nearby villages. The VR experience centers around a conversation between husband and wife. While the wife senses the danger and tries to escape, the husband refuses to even entertain the idea that something dangerous is coming. What prevents us from leaving somewhere we call home? The choices the participants make mold the couple’s future.
Director Iolanda Di Bonaventura
Actor Valentina Beotti, Jacopo Giacomoni, Arianna Moro
Italy｜ 2020｜ 25min｜ ENGLISH｜ ｜
- Human Drama
director
Iolanda Di Bonaventura [Film Director]
Iolanda Di Bonaventura was born in L'Aquila, Central Italy, in 1993. Excelling in various types of visual representations, her works including Beating Heart, a site-specific installation depicting her hometown of L’Aquilla which was devastated by the 2009 earthquake, and short film Presence Absence (2017). Her 2020 work VAJONT, which is featured in this year’s Historica, has so far been shown in 15 locations worldwide. It was also nominated for several categories of the Italian Video Games Award, the only domestic competition focusing on the Italian gaming market.
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