100 years in 48 hours: the ‘epic’ VR film Gondwana is set in the world’s oldest tropical rainforest
The Melbourne international film festival installation transports viewers to the Daintree Rainforest. Its creators share how they built an entire ecosystem
Ben Joseph Andrews and Emma Roberts stopped all the clocks the moment they arrived in the Daintree Rainforest to start a five month research trip for their epic, 48-hour, virtual reality film Gondwana. Arriving in the wet season of 2019, we scrambled our phones, our computers. We embraced the cycles of time that occur in the forest," says Andrews, the film's director. That letting go and surrendering gave us time to listen, and gain a deep appreciation of the multi-layered nature of that environment."
Their experience in the 180m-year-old rainforest, which literally re-shaped their sense of time, has never left them. Now, the pair hope to immerse audiences in a similarly perspective-altering experience with the installation of Gondwana at ACMI as part of Melbourne's international film festival, which will screen over 48 hours from Thursday to Saturday.
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