XR Coproduction Sessions
ISLE OF CORAL
Simon Rouby
France, Taiwan
Development Stage
Preproduction
Preproduction
45'
VO. French, English, Chinese
Isle of Coral is a serial documentary shaped as an immersive audiovisual experience attempting to answer the question: "[w]hy is coral bleaching?” This seemingly simple query leads to investigations ranging from modern science to aboriginal beliefs, geopolitics, Islam, Taoism, Spirits...
In search of
In addition to giving visibility to the ISLE OF CORAL project and finding a co-producer, my aim is to make contact with long-term partners with whom I can build other projects. In this way, I hope to become involved as a co-producer in a project that will be presented at the GDM.
Production
MIYU (Emmanuel-Alain RAYNAL), POKE POKE CREATIVE (Kuan-Yuan LAI), Pierre-Arthur Goulet
Simon Rouby
Simon Rouby is a multidisciplinary artist. His work combines sculpture, video, animation and performance. "Adama" (2015), his first feature film, was nominated for a César and selected for over 180 festivals worldwide. He is a former resident of Villa Medici, where he developed a practice of video installation. In 2023, he became resident at Villa Kujoyama and is developing his second animated feature.
