PIXII FESTIVAL: THE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF DIGITAL CULTURES GETS CONNECTED!
Explore the next dimension of storytelling!
In synergy with Sunny Side of the Doc, PiXii Festival Connected Edition will continue develop its community-based marketplace fully oriented on networking, information exchange and project acceleration around the most immersive works and digital experiences created through new convergences of documentary, culture and immersive technologies. Following our annual call for proposals, we are pleased to reveal the 14 digital and narrative experiences coming from France, Germany, Israel, Canada, United States and Australia now featured in the 2020 official selection of PiXii Festival.
The lineup celebrates original stories focused on using digital technologies to push storytelling in exciting new directions. Their interactive or immersive component leverages several digital technologies such as XR, VR, AR, 3D Sound, Smart Objects, Gaming, Artificial Intelligence. Titles and short synopsis are listed here.
DISCOVER THE OFFICIAL SELECTION
Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass
Musée du Louvre / HTC vive arts / Emissive
Virtual Reality
Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass is the first virtual reality (VR) experience presented by Musée du Louvre. The virtual reality experience combines moving image, sound and interactive design to create a deeply engaging way to immerse visitors in the world of da Vinci’s as well as bringing to life decades of conservation research and data, including infrared scans. Transporting the viewer through time, the experience unveils insights into how the artwork was originally created, how it might have looked in the past, and how it has changed over 500 years.
The Holy City
Nimrod Shanit – Timur Musabay – OccupiedVR – – Blimey
XR
Transport yourself to the world’s spiritual epicentre in this engaging sensory narrative experience built using stunning photogrammetrical scans of Jerusalem. The Holy City utilizes a series of challenging interactive games in room-scale environments to help nurture empathy and understanding amongst the Abrahamic cultures and religions of the city.

Pompéi, the VR Experience
Gédéon
Virtual Reality
This VR experience offers 3 simultaneous users to put themselves in the shoes of an archaeologist. Searching the ruins of the Pompei Garden House using a time beam, the user is invited to search for an archaeological object. A quest that will take him back in time.
Civil War 1864: A Virtual Reality Experience
American Battlefield Trust
Virtual Reality
Experience Civil War warfare, as never before, with the American Battlefield Trust’s new virtual reality feature. This immersive storytelling approach will put you back in time as you navigate in 360 degrees how it may have looked, felt and sounded to be a Civil War soldier.
Insurrection 1944: Immersion into the inner workings of French armed Resistance
Paris Musées / Musée de la Libération de Paris – Musée du Général Leclerc – Musée Jean Moulin / Realcast
Mixed Reality
Insurrection 1944 is an immersive experience twenty meters below The Museum of the Liberation of Paris. Through a HoloLens mixed reality headset, the visitor is in the skin of a resistant journalist who came to interview the head of the French forces.
Lights!
Les films du tambour de soie / Small Content
Virtual Reality, Smart Objects, 3D Sound
An empty cube. An exterior, a green wall invites you to enter a forest. Three users equip themselves and get into the forest. The night seizes them. A lantern is placed on a stone bench. One of the users grabs it to reveal the landscape and its sound universe. They must walk. In the distance the contours of a 14th century city appear.
Monument VR
Iconem
Virtual Reality
With this VR experience, you will be able to discover the most beautiful heritage sites in 3D real time. You will be able to digitally travel through sites, that one can’t physically visit anymore (in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria…) and marvel in front of dozens of World Heritage jewels.
The Antarctica Experience
Briege Whitehead / White Spark Pictures
Virtual Reality
This world-first documentary filmed in stunning 360 4K, provides a unique opportunity to visit the frozen continent and explore the effects of climate change, as well as see how scientists manage eco-systems, research sustainability and conserve wildlife – in the most successful VR film of all time.
MauAR
Kultur Projekte Berlin
Augmented Reality
AR app to experience the history of the Berlin Wall since its construction until the Peaceful Revolution. The app includes personal stories as interactive episodes from East and West Berlin and about key moments in 1989/90 – all at the historic places from Alexanderplatz to the Stasi Headquarters.
Walled-in
Joffrey Lavigne / Marguerite Boutrolle
Augmented Reality
Walled-In is a comic-Instagram at the crossroads of a thriller and a historical documentary.
We follow three characters whose destinies were turned upside down by the construction of the Wall of Shame. Each season tells the story of a character in ten episodes. Episodes are published using the Instagram carousel tool, which displays a frieze of ten boxes to scroll horizontally. In addition to the episodes, historical insights, developed from archive footage, are published as interactive stories.
Birdie Long Gone
Demute Studio
Augmented Reality
Birdie Long Gone is a 20-minute immersive experience for one spectator who brings a travel trunk back to life that has become the magical theatre of a quest for origins. Thanks to immersive headphones, we can hear the memories come to life around us, leaving the spectator imagine the world around him.
