QUEERSKINS – Producer
Produced Peabody Award winning VR experience and art installations for the interactive multimedia project Queerskins. Premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and has since shown at the Seattle International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, Siggraph, the LA Film Festival, Mexico City VRfest, Houston Cinema Arts Festival and the Geneva International Film Festival. Queerskins was one of 12 projects selected for the 2019 Venice Biennale College Cinema Virtual Reality Workshops. Queerskins also recently won the Columbia School of the Arts Digital Storytelling Lab Breakthroughs in Storytelling 2019 Special Jury Prize.
Created by Illya Szilak and Cyril Tsiboulski
Queerskins: a love story episode 1 is part of a trans-media project. When completed, it will include four linked virtual reality episodes, a curated immersive theatrical installation (a recreation of Sebastian’s Missouri attic bedroom) to house the experience, and our existing award-winning online interactive multimedia story.
Harnessing the immersive realism of 360º video (shot on location in rural Missouri), volumetric video capture with Depthkit, photogrammetry and the artistic potential of CGI, Queerskins offers visitors a new kind of interactive cinema, one in which they construct the story from an excess of information.
Queerskins: a love story is supported by the Tribeca Film Institute/MacArthur Foundation, The Sundance Institute/Arcus Foundation, and by Depthkit—a suite of tools that allows anyone to capture, edit, and publish volumetric experiences.