DARKFIELD – producers of innovative immersive experiences at the forefront of technology and theatre since 2016 – have announced their return to live in-person work, with new shipping container show EULOGY.
Launching as part of the Immersive Art and XR programme at BFI London Film Festival 2021 on the South Bank, next to the National Theatre, from 6 – 17 October, with a press performance on 7 October. EULOGY will then move to Nottingham Lakeside for a residency 20 – 31 October. EULOGY was funded by Digital Catapult after DARKFIELD was selected to be part of their Creative XR programme in 2020.
EULOGY is a communal experience lasting 30 minutes, that uses binaural sound and speech recognition technology to immerse each audience member into a dreamlike, labyrinthine hotel that is imagined in the darkness. Audience members are transported through rooms and down corridors, into a car park, a canteen and a lift which transports them between floors, taking them deeper into the dream. EULOGY is both an intense and exhilarating ride and a deeper exploration of the relative merits of an embodied human conscious experience versus one that only exists in the imagination.
Alongside partners around the world, DARKFIELD presents work in the UK, Australia & New Zealand, Canada, South Korea and Mexico and have so far reached over 250,000 audience members worldwide and counting. SEANCE, FLIGHT and COMA, the previous DARKFIELD location-based experiences sited in shipping containers, originally premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and have since toured the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico and South Korea.
EULOGY forms part of the BFI London Film Festival 2021’s Expanded category – which showcases the best of immersive art and XR, with innovative work from artists and creators who are boldly exploring the intersection of art, film and expanded reality.
