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The Exploding Girl VR

VR kortfilm door Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel
VIERNULVIER

A visceral portrait of youth in collapse

For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day, sometimes multiple times, with a record of seven. She’s now at 192 explosions. Through a visceral VR spectacle, the award-winning cinematic duo Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel portray her unstoppable anger as a haunting reflection of a world on edge.

  • Genre: Drama, Animation, Fiction, #Anger, #Social issue
  • Leeftijd: 13+
  • Format: PCVR (headset gekoppeld aan PC) Non Interactive 
  • Frans met Engelse ondertitels
  • Player Mode : Seated


Trigger warnings

  • bloed
  • seksuele inhoud
  • geweld 
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DIRECTOR STATEMENT

We spent five years developing the story of The Exploding Girl VR, alongside other short and feature films. Over time, Candice aged. Her relationship to the world became sharper, more lucid, and also more brutal. In our previous works, violence was more abstract, often dismissed as mere teenage crisis. But Candice’s anger is the anger of an entire generation facing helplessness and collapse.

This same story, if filmed in live-action, would be unwatchable - too violent. Working in 3D allowed us to introduce distance and space for reflection. It gave Candice a voice.

We collaborated with Saradibiza and Lucien Krampf - who also contributed to the game world in our previous feature film Eat the Night - and sourced existing online 3D assets to reconstruct Candice as a hybrid avatar, like performing a form of digital reconstructive surgery.

- Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, Co-Directors

Credits

Directed & Written by
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel

Production Companies
Atlas V, Byrd

Produced by
Oriane Hurard, Arnaud Colinart, Pierre Zandrowicz, Antoine Cayrol, Mando Stathi, Myrto Stathi

Narrated by
Grace Seri

Lead 3D Artists
Lucien Krampf, Saradibiza

Lead Developer
Johan Vignon

Music
Malibu

Sound Design
Olivier Voisin, Victor Praud, Nicolas Bredin

With the Support of
CNC, Procirep, Angoa

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