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animation * development * production

Ancestral Secret VR

2024

production: Galgo Storytelling, NowHere Media

20 minutes, Interactive virtual reality (360° video and animation)
Documentary

SYNOPSIS
“Ancestral Secret VR is a virtual reality project made in co-creation with members of the Q’ero Nation, an indigenous community from Peru. The experience places the user in the magnificent landscape of the Q’ero community, in the heights of the Vilcanota mountain range, the place where the last Incas live. It is a contemplative journey in which the user transits between the physical reality of the Q’ero and their sacred dimension, where the worldview and their ancestral rites are made visible through animation.

This piece invites a teenage audience to connect with nature, from the ancestral perspective of the guardians of Inca spiritual knowledge.“

CREDITS
Directors * Francisca Silva, Maria Jose Diaz / Production * Maria Jose Diaz, Francisca Silva, Julius Hackspiel, Isidora Fajardo | Co-production * Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran / Cinematography * Miguel Aravena / Editor * Philipp Wenning / Art Director * Moritz Mayerhofer / Lead Developer & Technical Artist * Felix Lange / CG Artist * Henning Schild / Art and Animation Assistant * Margarita Gehl / Storyboard * Virginia Herrera / Sound * Maria Jose Diaz, Miguel Aravena / Music & Sound Design * Billy Mello / Screenplay * Francisca Silva, Maria Jose Diaz / Stitching & Image Post-production* Adrian Meyer / Narrator * Dulce Alegría, Julia Thays, Elda Huamán, Rahel M / World Sales * Astrea