{"id":3269,"date":"2021-10-15T11:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T09:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/15\/you-are-the-dog-in-space-step-inside-asif-kapadias-new-vr-short-laika\/"},"modified":"2021-10-15T11:48:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T09:48:34","slug":"you-are-the-dog-in-space-step-inside-asif-kapadias-new-vr-short-laika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/15\/you-are-the-dog-in-space-step-inside-asif-kapadias-new-vr-short-laika\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You are the dog in space\u2019: step inside Asif Kapadia\u2019s new VR short, Laika"},"content":{"rendered":"

With his new animation, the Oscar-winning documentary maker \u2013 and former VR cynic \u2013 is exploring how the technology might revolutionise the way we experience cinema<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would have to build a car, that\u2019s the only way it would work,\u201d says Asif Kapadia, brainstorming how to recreate the unforgettable opening passage of his movie Diego Maradona<\/a>, in virtual reality. \u201cYou know what an LED lightbox is? It\u2019s the new version of green screen, a wall of tiny little lights, thousands of them. So you create whatever you want, you put it on that wall, and it projects. We\u2019d have to take every location of Naples in the 80s, put that on a light box, build a car, then put us in the car driving so that when you look out of the window you see Naples. I mean, it would be great. But you\u2019d have to build every environment and that \u2026\u201d he whispers, \u201cis why it\u2019s so expensive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the course of the pandemic, Kapadia has been keeping busy. He directed a miniseries on the subject of mental health<\/a> starring Oprah and Prince Harry, and a history of music in the year 1971<\/a> inspired by David Hepworth\u2019s hit book. He produced an Indian drama series for Amazon about a shaman on the run who joins forces with a local cop. He\u2019s building up to his next \u201cbig doc thing\u201d, a story he says is to do with space travel, confronts \u201call the mad shit going on right now\u201d and means he\u2019s \u201cgoing fully dystopian\u201d. He has also made a film showing at the London film festival (LFF) right now; a VR short about Laika, the first earthling to orbit Earth.<\/p>\n

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\nWith his new animation, the Oscar-winning documentary maker \u2013 and former VR cynic \u2013 is exploring how the technology might revolutionise the way we experience cinema
\n\u201cWe would have to build a car, that\u2019s the only way it would work,\u201d says Asif Kapadia, brainstorming how to recreate the unforgettable opening passage of his movie Diego Maradona, in virtual reality. \u201cYou know what an LED lightbox is? It\u2019s the new version of green screen, a wall of tiny little lights, thousands of them. So you create whatever you want, you put it on that wall, and it projects. We\u2019d have to take every location of Naples in the 80s, put that on a light box, build a car, then put us in the car driving so that when you look out of the window you see Naples. I mean, it would be great. But you\u2019d have to build every environment and that \u2026\u201d he whispers, \u201cis why it\u2019s so expensive.\u201d
\nOver the course of the pandemic, Kapadia has been keeping busy. He directed a miniseries on the subject of mental health starring Oprah and Prince Harry, and a history of music in the year 1971 inspired by David Hepworth\u2019s hit book. He produced an Indian drama series for Amazon about a shaman on the run who joins forces with a local cop. He\u2019s building up to his next \u201cbig doc thing\u201d, a story he says is to do with space travel, confronts \u201call the mad shit going on right now\u201d and means he\u2019s \u201cgoing fully dystopian\u201d. He has also made a film showing at the London film festival (LFF) right now; a VR short about Laika, the first earthling to orbit Earth. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With his new animation, the Oscar-winning documentary maker \u2013 and former VR cynic \u2013 is exploring how the technology might revolutionise the way we experience cinema \u201cWe would have to build a car, that\u2019s the only way it would work,\u201d says Asif Kapadia, brainstorming how to recreate the unforgettable opening passage of his movie Diego …<\/p>\n

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