Is Virtual Reality the New Frontier for Human Rights Filmmakers?
Alex King reflects on the virtual reality projects taken on by human rights filmmakers and activists, addressing the ways they bring new forms of visibility to a range of crises. How might these technologies combat news cycles or compassion fatigue? And to ask another question, how can a fully immersive experience be linked to action and not rest solely in empathy, which risks a narcissism of pity?
Films discussed include:
Bloodless (Gina Kim)
We Who Remain (Trevor Sharp and Sam Wolson)
We Who Remain is a 360-Degree piece of VR reportage which you can watch below:
A project not discussed, but of possible interest is the VR simulation of vision loss. What benefits are there for such a device?
To read more, visit: https://www.huckmag.com/perspectives/activism-2/virtual-reality-new-frontier-human-rights-filmmakers/