NFB Collection
The Enemy (VR Installation)
2017~ 1 hInteractive: Installation
By: Karim Ben Khelifa
Production: Chloé Jarry (Camera Lucida)Hugues Sweeney (National Film Board of Canada)Fabien Barati (Emissive)Emmanuel Guerriero (Emissive)Nicolas S. Roy (Dpt.)Louis-Richard Tremblay (National Film Board of Canada)Marie-Pier Gauthier (National Film Board of Canada)
Produced by Camera Lucida, Nouvelles Écritures, the National Film Board of Canada, Dept. and Emissive supported by the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA), Tribeca Film Institute, Sundance Intitute, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, MIT Open Documentary Lab, Open Society Foundations and Arts at MIT.
In The Enemy, viewers will meet six combatants from three long-standing conflict zones: Israel-Palestine, Congo, and El Salvador. The virtual-reality exhibit supports up to 20 simultaneous visitors, but can be scaled up to accommodate more.
The exhibit integrates the latest advances in neuroscience to provide users with a personalized experience in which each person’s reactions affect the perceptions of others. By analyzing the personal processes that create empathy, the installation alters our virtual appearance so that we appear to the other players to be in the skin of a fighter.
In accordance with Karim’s wishes, this exhibit will also be installed in the conflict zones represented, so that younger generations can try the experience and perhaps alter their perceptions of the enemy—the “Other” they have experienced as dehumanized throughout their entire lives.
Availability
Other versions
Subject categories
- National Security and Defence > Army Programs and Operations
- War, Conflict and Peace > Militarism
Credits
- interactive production creator
- Karim Ben Khelifa
- line production
- François Bertrand
- executive producer
- Chloé Jarry
- Hugues Sweeney
- Fabien Barati
- Emmanuel Guerriero
- Nicolas S. Roy
- project manager
- Hélène Adamo
- Didier Mayda
- Jennifer Havy
- production manager
- Vincent Decis
- Nathalie Bédard-Morin
- Marie-Pier Gauthier
- Geneviève Trepanier
- Stéphanie Emond
- production manager - assistance
- Sylvia Alba
- Caroline Bouffard
- production assistant
- Thibault Bernard
- Ana-Maria de Jesus
- Matthieu Mainpin
- Alexandra Ternant
- Alessandra Bogi
- production coordinator
- Céline DeLaunay
- Frédérique Dewynter
- Caroline Fournier
- Dominique Brunet
- Perrine Bral
- production administration
- Valérie Sieye
- Anthony Donato
- Stéphanie Garcia
- Sandrine Miguirian
- Vanille Cabaret
- VR experience distribution
- Hélène Adamo
- communications
- Hélène Adamo
- Agnès Desplas
- Léo Fauvel
- communications - assistant
- Charlotte Zipper
- graphic artist
- Gordon
- technical coordination
- Pascal Voisin
- producer
- Louis-Richard Tremblay
- Marie-Pier Gauthier
- editorial manager
- Valérie Darveau
- head of technologies
- Martin Viau
- administrator
- Marie-Andrée Bonneau
- technical coordinator
- Mira Mailhot
- technical support - editing
- Pierre Dupont
- Isabelle Painchaud
- Patrick Trahan
- narration recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- Luc Léger
- marketing manager
- Paule Béland
- Tammy Peddle
- social media strategist
- Kathryn Ruscito
- Émilie Nguyen Ngoc
- media relations
- Marie-Claude Lamoureux
- information technologies
- Sergiu Raul Suciu
- legal services
- Peter Kallianiotis
- 3D graphics
- Vanessa Jory
- Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin
- 3D animation
- Clotilde Steffen
- Christophe Devaux
- developer
- Karim Guennoun
- Charles Taieb
- Clément Barbisan
- Vincent Ponsort
- Nolwenn Bigoin
- Antoine Ferrieux
- Vander Amaral
- Guillaume Tomasi
- Julien Robitaille
- technical expert
- Fabien Barati
- Anthony Bousselier
- executive assistant
- Sandrine Alexandre
- creative director
- Nicolas S. Roy
- artistic director
- Maude Thibodeau
- user experience and design
- Maude Thibodeau
- Raed Moussa
- Julie Delias
- lead developer
- Paul Georges
- assistant director
- Sélim Harbi
- director of photography
- Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
- director of photography - assistant
- Quentin Esperse
- 3D scan
- Fabien Barati
- Yoray Liberman
- photogrammetry
- Fabien Barati
- fixer
- Eman Mohammed
- Rubi Makeover
- Adolph Basengezi
- Paula Rosales
- cameraman
- Yoray Liberman
- director of photography unity environment
- Lionel Jan Kerguistel
- translation
- Rhona Dumonthier-Finch
- Keren Gitai-Mock
- Bianca Jacobson
- Emmanuelle Ricard
- Elizabeth Young
- Gabrielle Lisa Collard
- Bronwyn Haslam
- Rhonda Sherwood
- Jovana Jankovic
- Anna Victor
- Catherine Bélanger
- Crystal Béliveau
- English voice
- Fanny Gautier
- voice-over
- Alexandre Daneau
- Peter Michael Dillon
- Matt Holland
- Gabriel Lessard
- actor's agent
- Voices
- Tandem
- Emilie Françoise
- vocal coach
- Benoit Rousseau
- Élise Bertrand
- assistant editor
- Guillaume Cage
- Vivien Casamian
- Arthur Muller
- sound recording studio
- Sylicone
- Pom'Zed
- National Film Board of Canada
- sound engineer
- Philippe Chariot
- Bruno Lagoarde
- Matthieu Cochi
- Eric Wager
- Marie Muller
- head grip
- Vincent Blasco
- Jean Chesneau
- Tennessee Charles
- technical instruments
- Optitrack - Natural Point
Awards
- Rose d’or award:Virtual Reality categoryEuropean Broadcasting Union
- prix SENSibleFilm Festival