Description:
“Rain Fruits” is based on a personal writing of Thura, an alien worker from Myanmar in Korea. As a foreign worker and an observer of Korea, Thura depicts social inequalities and discrepancies against alien workers while sharing his poetic comments on the glamours and dark sides of the modern capitalist society. Calmly narrating his views and experiences in a foreign country, he juxtaposes stories of his childhood in his hometown where life was poor but more wholesome. Using empathetic power of VR and the poetic quality of volumetric point cloud imagery, creators of this project wish the audience to become Thura and experience the anger, sadness, alienation and nostalgia of an alien worker in a foreign country. Not just in Korea, but anywhere in the world. In this ever-changing capitalist world, everyone is an alien.
// ABOUT: Director Youngyun SONG graduated multi-media MFA program at K'ARTS (Korea National University of Arts) He is a visionary filmmaker specializing in VR and documentary projects that explore the intersection of virtual reality and real-life experiences. His documentary films have been invited to many film festivals including DMZ. His latest XR work, Fly To You, poignantly portrays the stories of families separated by the Korean War and has been invited to prestigious festivals, including Raindance Immersive and Ars Electronica. /// Sngmoo Lee is a writer, director, and producer working in the traditional film and XR industry. His VR projects "Eyes In The Red Wind" "Scarecrow", “Red Eyes” and "Scarecrow VRC" have been invited and won awards at various festivals. He also is a professor and the director of the Arts and Technology Lab at K'ARTS
