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Clouds Over Sidra
2016 · Film · short · 8 min
Directed by Gabo Arora, Chris Milk
Meet Sidra. This charming 12-year old girl will guide you through her temporary home: The Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan. Zaatari is home to 130,000 Syrians fleeing violence and war, and children make up half the camp's population. In this lyrical VR film, Sidra leads you through her daily life: Eating, sleeping, learning and playing in the vast desert city of tents.
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"That the new generation of VR’s first software products will mostly be games, then, seems in little doubt. But the industry’s boosters point out that it could have plenty of other uses as well. One is film. All of the proposed headsets will come with cinema apps that put the user inside a virtual picture palace with an ordinary flat screen. But immersive films that place the viewer at the centre of the action, and which are made with special panoramic cameras, are possible too. One, called “Clouds over Sidra”, which chronicles life inside a refugee camp in Jordan, has already proved a hit online."