Missing 10 Hours

Fanni Fazakas

Hungary | 2022 | 16 min

Credit:

Directing: Fanni Fazakas

Production: Noemi Veronika Szakonyi, RumeXR, Match Frame Productions Ltd.

Key collaborator: Krisztina Meggyes, Kertész Zsanett

Sound Design: Infaze Studio

Music: Trabalka Cecília

Screening copy: Fanni FazakasWorld Sales: RumeXR, Match Frame Productions Ltd.




Synopsys:

How could it have happened, in a public space and in the company of people who call themselves friends? This is the question that always arises in response to yet another news story about date rape. But rape cases like this often involve more people than just the perpetrator and the victim. Missing 10 Hours makes us realise how much the decision and actions of bystanders can drastically influence the course of an evening.In this interactive VR piece, the viewer is led on a night out by Greg, a big-headed guy with bad intentions. He spikes the 22-year-old Mara’s drink with the GHB drug, and she gradually loses control of her actions. A walk through the night ends in a backstreet, where Greg maneuvers Mara into a dark corner. The choices the viewer makes during the evening – go along with Greg, watch passively or intervene – determine the outcome: a safe ending, or arrest and questioning at the police station.

Festivals / Awards:

  • Krakow Film Festival, Virtual Reality, Poland, 2024
  • Wales Millennium Centre, StoryFutures: XPERIENCE, UK, 2024
  • One World, Immersive Films Competition, Czech Republic, 2024
  • Animateka International Animated Film Festival, Slovenia, 2023
  • Alliance Française Vancouver, V-Unframed, Canada, 2023
  • VERZIO – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Hungary, 2023
  • Belfast XR Festival, UK, 2023
  • NK-Interactive, Inconvenient Films (Nepatogus kinas), Lithuania, 2023
  • Kaohsiung Film Festival, XR Dreamland – XR Competition, 2023 – XR Immersive Award
  • FNC Explore, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Kanada, 2023
  • VR Theater, SIGGRAPH, USA, 2023
  • Guanajuato International Film Festival, Mexico, 2023
  • Doc Edge Film Festival, XR exhibition, New Zealand, 2023 – XR Impact Award
  • Brainz VR Cinema, Anifilm, Czech Republic, 2023
  • Kaboom Animation Festival, VR in Competition, the Netherlands 2023
  • Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Immersive – All Around Cinema, Greece, 2023
  • IDFA Festival, IDFA DocLab Nervous Systems, the Netherlands, 2022
  • Raindance Film Festival, UK, 2022