Zikr: A Sufi Revival
An interactive virtual reality journey into a world of ecstatic ritual and music.
Uaxuctum
Music and its source of inspiration converge in this mesmeric VR recording of Giacinto Scelsi’s notoriously difficult orchestral work about an ancient Mayan sacred place.
This Room
A powerful VR installation that lets us experience how traumatic it is to spend years living in a refugee center.
Half Life VR
This immersive VR recording plunges us into a rhythmic “cyborg choreography” shown from 60 different angles.
Ahorse!
This richly cinematic VR piece presents an alternative history of human imagination, focused on our depiction of the horse from the beginning of time to a virtual future.
Accused no. 2: Walter Sisulu
Audio recordings of the notorious Rivonia Trial in South Africa in 1964 come to life in this black-and-white animated VR experience.
The Industry VR
As you explore their workspaces, marijuana growers and coke barons tell you about the kicks and the stress of their illegal work.
False Mirror
This ever-growing VR city is a laboratory in which its creator Ali Eslami explores our possible futures in completely virtual worlds.
Awavena
Technology and transcendence merge in this VR experience transporting you to the Yawanawá in the Amazon. Your guide is the community’s first female shaman.
I Saw the Future
Witness Arthur C. Clarke’s prophetic 1964 speech – predicting many of the technologies in our lives today – in this experimental VR film.
The Party
See the world through the eyes of Layla, an autistic 15-year-old girl, as she deals with a busy social setting, a surprise birthday party for her mum.
Lionhearted
8 Year old Rida tells us about her journey, the difficulties of her escape from Afghanistan, and her dark past overshadowed by the Taliban.
Step to the Line
A virtual reality documentary that aims to provoke a transformation in the spectator’s eyes about prisoners, the prison system, and even themselves.
Notes to My Father
A story of love, grief and reconciliation between a survivor of trafficking and her father.
Home In Between
A 360-degree documentary about the people of Kara Tepe, a refugee-camp on the Greek island of Lesvos.
I Am Rohingya
Experience Jamalida’s life inside a regufee camp and watch an account of how she fled the violence in Myanmar in an immersive animation.
Melting Ice
Join Al Gore on an immersive 3D-360 experience to the frontlines of climate change on the melting ice caps of Greenland.
We Who Remain
An immersive virtual reality film that takes the viewer into the heart of the forgotten conflict in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan.
After Solitary
An experience that places the viewer physically and emotionally inside an otherwise inaccessible world.
Unrest VR
An immersive journey into the experience of an invisible illness, myalgic encephalomyelitis.
Testimony
A virtual reality documentary that shares the stories of five survivors of sexual assault and their journey to healing.
Patent Alert
Experience what the smart glasses of the future will offer. Are we actually heading in the right direction?
Limbo
What is it like to flee your home and start again in a new country? This virtual reality film allows you to feel this period of limbo, waiting for a decision that will affect the rest of your life.
{The And} VR
Watch a gripping conversation in VR between a mother and daughter as they answer a series of confrontational questions.
A Thin Black Line
This interactive VR experience follows five-year-old Patima’s perspective as she flees the violence of war.
The Last Chair
In a satisfyingly calm 360-degree documentary, we are silent witnesses of solitary rural lives as they draw to an end.
Potato Dreams
Images of melancholy, fear and love from the Soviet Union surround us in this theatrical and intimate VR documentary.
Homestay
A moving virtual reality story in a world of delicately folded paper, about a Canadian family and their unexpected experience with a Japanese exchange student.
Invisible
An immersive journey into the uncertainty and despair of the UK’s immigration detention system.
C.A.P.E. Drop_Dog
Using state-of-the-art technology C.a.p.e. Drop_Dog teleports the visitor to the stage and into the core of two short stories.
Hieronymus Bosch, The Eyes of the Owl
An innovative way to experience Bosch’s most famous painting up close and personal.
Easter Rising: Voice of a Rebel
Step into one man’s memories of a moment that changed Irish history forever: the 1916 Easter Rising.
The Ark
A virtual reality documentary that puts viewers face-to-face with the last northern white rhinos.
Mamie’s Dream
Experience what it means to be a girl in Sierra Leone and deal with the issues that affect girls on a daily basis.
Daily Life VR
A WebVR series about some of life’s most basic and essential pursuits: eating, pooping, sleeping, etc.
Collisions
A journey to the land of indigenous elder Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian desert.
DeathTolls Experience
A virtual journey from the refugee crisis in Europe to the bloodbath in Syria, placing the dry “data reality” of the news in an emotional perspective.
Flint Is a Place
A powerful, stylized portrayal of the pride, hope and pent-up anger felt by the people of Flint, Michigan, a symbol of all that can go wrong with the American Dream.
Chameleon
An immersive and sensory portrait of Mexico City, in collaboration with 12 Mexican artists from various disciplines.
Home: Aamir
Experience the inhumane conditions of the Calais “jungle” and travel with Aamir from South Sudan via Libya and across the Mediterranean to his new “home.”
Tzina: Symphony of Longing
A poetic, interactive VR documentary in which the residents of the run-down Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv muse on their lives, loves, longing and loneliness.
The Resistance of Honey
Bioni Samp’s bees don’t just make honey – they also make music. A fascinating, mind-expanding glimpse into the exceptional world inside the beehive.
Notes on Blindness VR
What’s it like to be blind? Notes on Blindness is an enchanting, award-winning interactive VR experience, based on the audio diary of author and theologian John Hull.
Deprogrammed
A meditative virtual walk through the mental worlds of a former member of the Unification Church, a skinhead and a jihadist.
The Perfect Human
The Perfect Human is a VR film, part of a crossmedia project about the impact of developments in science and technology on what it means to be human.
Jisr Al-Shoughour
SMART and OKIO REPORT transport you to Jisr al-Shughur, Syria, to experience the tragedy as if you were there.
The Cave
With a slow, poetic and contemplative pace, The Cave confronts the viewer with the supernatural power of painted prehistoric caves (which were none other than the first “immersive experiences”) as if you discover one of them for the first time.
Offshore VR
Offshore VR takes its audience into a derelict, shattered drill platform far away in some unspecified ocean where something has gone terribly wrong.
The Museum of Stolen Art
The Museum of Stolen art is a virtual space for art that has been stolen or looted. It is an Oculus Rift experience where one can enjoy artwork that is otherwise hidden.
In the Eyes of the Animal
Discover forests anew through In the Eyes of the Animal, a 360 cinematic experience immersing you in a vibrant landscape belonging to woodland creatures.
Waves of Grace
Step into the virtual shoes of Decontee Davis, who recovered from Ebola and now helps other victims of the disease in a township in Monrovia, Liberia.
Way to Go
A walk in the woods as an interactive experience for people of all ages.
Kiya
Virtual reality deployed in the battle against domestic violence makes the viewer an eyewitness to a dangerous situation.
The Enemy
This installation and app invites you to step into the very heart of conflict situations and find out why people engage in violence.
RecoVR: Mosul, a Collective Reconstruction
A virtual environment that brings back to life the historical collection of the Mosul Museum, raided by IS in 2014.
Drawing Room
Step into the first “drawn reality” by Jan Rothuizen, about the “premium experience” of the tower room in an Amsterdam department store.
Witness 360: 7/7
One survivor of the London bombings of July 7, 2005 talks about that day and gives us a sense of the trauma that still haunts her.
The Unknown Photographer
An ominous, poetic and virtual odyssey through the trenches of the memory of a photographer from World War I.
LoVR
A virtual reality love trip through the brain activity that occurs in the staggering moment you fall in love; a poem written in data.
DMZ: Memories of No Man’s Land
A virtual reality exploration of the heavily guarded border between North and South Korea makes the paranoia of the Cold War palpable.
Zero Point
One of the first 360-degree documentary films ever, investigating the future of virtual reality.
Strangers with Patrick Watson
Visit singer-songwriter Patrick Watson’s studio through virtual reality.
The Machine to Be Another
An interactive performance installation allowing the user to enter the body and mind of another person.
Clouds
An immersive, interactive documentary on the cutting edge of art and computer code.
Assent
An award-winning virtual reality documentary about a tragic memory of 1973 Chile.
C.A.P.E.
An individual, immersive experience that uses the latest technologies to transport its users to a virtual mix between Shanghai and Brussels.
Hunger in Los Angeles
An immersive journalistic experience where the viewer becomes a witness to the consequences of food shortages in Los Angeles.
Industry Session: Creating Inclusive Realities
Drawing hands-on inspiration from immersive storytelling to create more diverse and authentic stories.
Immersive Network Summit
Invite only think tank event for experts from all corners of the interactive and immersive storytelling industry to explore next steps in developing the medium.
DocLab Expo: Humanoid Cookbook
This years’s DocLab exhibition is designed as a restaurant for digital art. On the menu there are more than 30 interactive documentaries, culinary performances and interactive experiments with human behavior and technology.
Expert Meeting: Interactive Documentary Preservation
Invite-only expert session on the preservation of interactive documentary art.
Immersive Network Summit
The Immersive Network Summit brings together experts from all corners of the interactive and immersive storytelling industry.
Financing Market: IDFA Crossmedia Forum 2017
New media projects will be pitched for a broad audience of attending broadcasters and other decision makers from around the world.
Industry Session: Making VR Work for Audiences
Zillah Watson, Commissioning Editor for Virtual Reality at the BBC, on how to make VR work for audiences.
DocLab Live: Bloodless – Guided by the Ghost of a Korean Sex Worker
Special presentation on VR installation Bloodless, in which director Gina Kim and guests discuss the influence of American military presence on the South Korean people since 1956.
Open Call for IDFA DocLab Academy 2018 Participants
The deadline has now passed.
Interactive Conference 2017 talks are now online
You can now catch up on all of the talks from the 5th DocLab Interactive Conference, featuring artists and thinkers from across the industry.
