Claude Monet - The Water Lily obsession

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In 1883 painter Claude Monet first rented a house in the French town of Giverny. After purchasing the property and adjoining land, the artist transformed an existing small pond into a water garden with water lilies and a Japanese-style bridge from which he could observe the water and the flowers. From 1899 to 1926, Monet painted more than 250 scenes devoted to the water lily theme, which became what he himself called “an obsession.” Through a dialogue between Claude Monet and his old friend, statesman George Clemenceau, this contemplative VR experience invites you on a sensory journey starting off in Claude Monet’s garden, stopping along the way at the workshop of the artist and ending in the exhibition rooms of the Orangerie Museum. You relive a perpetual renewal of nature, to explore time and space while immersed in the Water lilies paintings.

Release date

1/1/2019

Minimum Duration (mn)

URL

http://lucidrealities.studio/index.php/en/portfolio/waterlilies/

Thematics

Animals / NatureCulture and artsDocumentary

Technology(ies) used

3DoF6DoF

Production company(ies)

Lucid Realities

Country(ies)

France

Distribution Strategy

Device(s) compatibility

HTC ViveHTC Vive CosmosHTC Vive ProOculus RiftValve Index

Number of user(s)

Single-user experience

Play area

Seated (360° chair)

Distribution strategy

Art museums & galleriesFestival, Art fairs

Main Achievements (Prize, Selection, where the project has been already distributed)

VivePort Developer Award – Best Art & Culture VR experience in 2019 Silver Muse Award at the annual meeting of American Alliance of Museum (2019 – New Orleans) Grand Prix at PiXii Festival – Sunny Side of the Doc (2019 – La Rochelle) Grand Prize Winner at Anny Festival (2019 - New York ) Special mention of the jury at FIFA – Experientia (2019 - Montreal) Official selection at The Fine Arts Film Festival (2020 - Venice) Official selection at FIPADOC - Smart Lab SMART LAB (2020 - Biarritz) Official selection at Kaohsiung Film Festival (2019) Official selection at VRHAM (2019 - Hambourg) Official selection at Sandbox Immersive Festival (2019 - Qingdao) Official selection at Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2019 - York) Official selection at J.Hlava IDFF Festival (2019 - Ji Hlava) Official selection at Festival International d’Art Vidéo de Casablanca (2019) Official selection at CPH:Dox (2019 - Copenhagen) Presentation out of competition at Cannes XR (2019) Presentation out of competition at Short film fest of Clermont-Ferrand (2020)

Team

First and last name(s) of the Lead artist(s)

Nicolas Thépot

First and last name(s) of producer(s)

Chloé Jarry

Main cast

Original music: George Lepauw (International Beethoven project) French actors: Georges Claisse (Claude Monet), Didier Bénureau (Georges Clémenceau) English actors: Geoffrey Bateman (Claude Monet), Peter Hudson (Georges Clémenceau) Executive producer: Chloé Jarry Production manager: Alessandra Bogi Graphic creation & development: Hugo Arcier, Studio N°130 Sound design: Thomas Couchard, NOVELAB Coproducers ARTE France, Lucid Realities, Camera lucida productions, Musées d’Orsay Et de L’Orangerie, Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion With the support of CNC – Fonds Nouveaux Médias, Fonds Transmédia de la Ville de Paris Distribution: Lucid Realities

Lucid RealitiesPart of the CLPB Media Group, Lucid Realities is an immersive and interactive production and distribution company based in Paris, co-founded by Chloé Jarry and François Bertrand. Chloé Jarry is the Executive Producer of The Enemy, the award-winning Virtual and Augmented Reality exhibition directed by Karim Ben Khelifa. The project premiered at the Arabic World Institute in Paris in May 2017 and was showcased during three months at the MIT Museum in Cambridge (Ms) that same year. (Best Journalistic VR project – World VR Forum 2018, Numix 2018 and 2019, Rose d’Or 2017, Sensible Award – GIFF 2018). The projects powered by Lucid Realities are designed to foreshadow the future of the XR industry and innovate ways to produce and distribute XR experiences. For us, XR is more than technology: it’s an opportunity to create unprecedented emotional ways to connect people with edutainment contents. Supported by some of the major players in the film and XR fields (Sundance Institute, Tribeca Film Fund, Google DNI, HTC Vive Arts, NFB, European public broadcasters), we have shown our ability to build innovative business models, tell powerful stories and create new kinds of presentation.

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