Dirty Bacon

12/12/2020

Happy Escalade 2020, keep safe and keep dancing ! Célébrons le 418e anniversaire de l'Escalade, l'une des plus importantes fêtes de Genève en cette année où le traditionnel cortège a du être annulé. Au son de l’hymne officiel joué par le choeur du Grand Théâtre de Genève. Genève - Ville de culture
Réalisé par Salar Shahna avec Océane Godon
Pour retrouver les paroles https://www.geneve.ch/fr/faire-geneve/decouvrir-geneve-quartiers/histoire-geneve/histoire-escalade/laino

10/11/2020

Jiangsu Lu 876, Inventory Before Liquidation
A short documentary film in virtual reality

by Joao Inada,
Produced by Salar Shahna
with the collaboration of Aijing Cao and Jaunt XR China.
Spatial audio mix by Masé Studios Genève, Vuk Vukmanovic

A virtual reality chronicling the last days of Christian de Laubadere in his magnificent studio in Shanghai, China. This expatriate artist has lived abroad for almost 20 years. Laubadere’s unique work is inspired by the inevitable clash between East and West and exposes a man who lived and breathed in a time of extreme change. A change that culminated in his sudden departure from China and the destruction of his studio in 2018, leaving behind the memories and reflections of a person who integrated and explored the peculiarities of two rich and complex cultures.

This project was carried out by the partnership between Dirty Bacon and João Inada, brazilian VR and traditional documentary filmmaker, researcher, and journalist based in Shanghai, China. This film is a continuation of João's work aimed at revealing artists' studios around the world in virtual reality and revealing the inner reflection of painters, poets and sculptors.

“ My partnership with Salar Shahna was essential to bring this project to fruition. From the original idea, with this virtual reality experience, we have come to a true declaration on the effects of modernity, artistic ambition and the passage of time. " __João Inada

To perceive this fabulous studio that was both home and workplace, VR was the only medium capable of transmitting in volume the true beauty and details of a world built over time by an artist who collected and produced unique pieces. The VR medium has strengths unmatched to this day, thanks in particular to the immediacy of the aesthetic and sensory experience. This is an opportunity to bring audiences closer to the privacy of artists, workplaces, places where detail and art can only be truly felt through a physical - and now virtual - presence.

04/11/2020

"A docu-dream about the common terrain of our bodies."

For its world premiere, Terrain was selected at this year’s VR competition at The 77th Venice International Film Festival and directed by Lily Baldwin and Saschka Unseld, who previously worked at Pixar Studios and is the Co-Founder of Oculus Story Studio.

Convinced by the discovery of a project presented at the World Vr forum in 2017, Salar Shahna made a commitment to the two authors with complementary talents to produce a film together on Swiss soil.
Despite the discord of not being able to produce projects from foreign horizons, Terrain ended up in Swiss production. Dirty Bacon supports and guides Swiss and international authors, directors and technicians in the development of their projects.

Terrain is a new kind of global community built with nonverbal communication using the language of movement. This project maps out a new model of spectatorship and, through this, a new role for the work of art in social space. Terrain is centered on connection and community, ‘performing’ connectedness in art as a way of engendering it in life. Terrain pulls passive, individual viewers into an active group of participants.

23/10/2020

"Imagine living deep within the Amazon. It’s where you were born and raised. This is true for the Xikrin tribe who have lived within the lush wilderness of the Amazon for decades. It is their home. Yet, what was meant to be a peaceful environment is no longer safe and sound."

Cosmic Birds invites you into the lush rainforest that is full of life and into a soon-to-be lost world of tradition and magic. A landscape that holds the promise of our planet’s harmony, a message once deeply rooted in Xikrin culture. Today, the Xikrin find themselves, much like us, astray between two worlds: the modern world and the one of tradition.

It is essential that 3D images stay true to Xikrin's story to honestly describe their social system. Dirty Bacon acknowledges that this medium must first serve values of a work and the artistic ambitions, the main issues residing in the choice of subject, its scriptwriting treatment and the formal quality of its expression.

21/10/2020

Schweizer and Tricart make a strong team. Their unique vision and dedication impressed the Founder of Durty Bacon, Salar Shahna. He has worked with both in the past, producing Schweitzer’s film and curating Tricart’s work. After learning more about the project, Salar decided to produce this film in particular, due to his expertise and network in XR. VR films such as Cosmic Birds, that combine cinematic 360° with interactive 3D elements, thus showing different representations of reality, are rare and have the particularity of being much more engaging for the uninitiated public. DirtyBacon’s experience in conveing a sensation of physical embodiment through mixed VR formats provides Cosmic Birds with real potential for a high-quality product.

Through virtual reality and interactivity, we experience oneness which increases empathy. For those who might see the Xikrin as completely foreign to themselves or fear them, may be surprised. They will learn that Xikrin’s have the same needs and desires as we do, the same fears of losing who they are and not finding their place in the world. This new form of media is the closest way of stepping into someone else’s shoe’s. We deeply care about the Xikrin tribe and believe that the equal and fair treatment of all human beings is worth defending.

21/10/2020