Kabaret

Kabaret premiered at IFFR, the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2023

An interactive VR-experience about coral’s synchronized reproduction and a lonely shrimp’s worries about the future.

Crew:

Director, writer and designer: Gina Thorstensen

VR experience design, programmer and audio director: Milan Grajetzki

Programming, shading and 3D animation: Morten Andersen

Sound design and recording: Therese Næss Diesen

Music: Miracle Musical

Synopsis:

Kabaret is an interactive VR experience about synchronized coral spawning, and a singing shrimp’s worries about the future. It’s a playful and explorative journey from the edge of our galaxy to the depths of our oceans. We strum out a chime on glowing phytoplankton, swim through a portal of seafood aspic – the titular “Kabaret”, a dish once popular in Norway – and are carried by the moon to a coral reef in mating season. But all is not well here. Can we help save the coral’s yearly spawning? Kabaret is part musical, part documentary and invites us to indulge our curiosity of the natural world, and reflect on our relationship to it.

Produced by:

Loddenland Studio

With support from:

Norsk filminstitutt

Kulturrådet – Fond for lyd og bilde

Viken Filmsenter

Grafill

Den norske filmskolen