Procession
iOS app ︎︎︎Android app ︎︎︎
2021 | UX/UI
Dir. Dustin Yellin
Dev. Elie Zananiri, Nate Turley
Audio. Mach 1
Prod. Droga5, National Wildlife Federation, Squint/Opera, Q Department, Vrai Pictures
Off. sel. Tribeca Film Festival
One of the first fine-art AR projects based on a realized sculpture to combine animation, collage and archival footage into an explorative interactive soundscape. It presents our near future, a period of global unrest and environmental destruction, spurred by raging flood waters and massive wildfires. Humanity is faced with a choice: living in ignorance or uniting to preserve what's left of our planet.
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7 Sounds
2021 | Creative advisement and production
Dir. Sam Green, JD Samson
Audio. Headspace Studios
Prod. The Department of Motion Pictures, Vrai Pictures
Off. sel. Sundance Film Festival, SXSW
An immersive live-streamed audio-video work exploring the universal influence of sound, weaving seven specific audio recordings into a meditation on the power of sound to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception.
“Reporters often look to festival lineups to find stories that might work as metaphors or trends; this year, the most appropriate opportunity came from [Sundance’s] New Frontier...Green offers eloquent observations on the need to listen to the world to forge a deeper connection, particularly in times of profound isolation.”
- Eric Kohn for IndieWire︎︎︎
Rio de Los Angeles
2019 | Dir. Jessica Brillhart
Dev. Superbright
Vfx. Endless Collective
Audio. Antfood
Prod. Vrai Pictures
Exec. Prod. Verizon, RYOT
Collab. Frank Gehry, OLAN, River LA
Feat. exhibit Summit LA
Rio de Los Angeles is an immersive, bi-lingual augmented reality mobile experience that invites people to learn about the history, complexities and potential of the Los Angeles River system.
“Fifty-one miles of territory. Thousands of years of evolution. How to grasp the complexity of the Los Angeles River, its history and its geological diversity in a single sitting? Well, there’s an app for that.”
- Carolina A. Miranda for the Los Angeles Times ︎︎︎
Traverse Immersive Audio Platform
Live demo at SXSW ︎︎︎2019 | Dir. Jessica Brillhart
Dev. Superbright
Audio. Antfood, Mach 1
Prod. Bose, Vrai Pictures
Collab. Bose, Elvis Presley Enterprises, Authentic Brands Group, Sony Legacy, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Sony Classical, Yo-Yo Ma, Sound Posting, Sougwen Chung, Gadi Sassoon, Phi Centre, Nokia Bell Labs, Ninja Tune
Off. sel. SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival, Sonar+D
Traverse is a platform for free-roaming spatial audio experiences. Using a mobile device and audio-driven AR technology, each Traverse experience takes an audio recording and makes it something you can physically move through. You can explore a sound field as you like. You can hear things from another perspective. You can walk towards or away from the singer, or the drummer, or the audio engineer. You can witness a mix morph and change around you as you move through it. You can go back in time or travel into another dimension. All this happens through powerful immersive audio – and from the comfort of wherever you are. Welcome to the next steps in listening.
Winner of the Special Jury Prize for “Future of Experience” at SXSW and part of Bose AR’s early developer program.
“Forget VR headsets: The next frontier for immersive storytelling may be your headphones.”
- Janko Roettgers for Variety ︎︎︎
“When I hit play, I was surrounded by the opening guitar riff of ‘Suspicious Minds’ and, almost immediately, took a step back as I heard Elvis belting vocals right in front of me. As I walked around, it was almost like I was moving among the ghosts of Elvis and his crew -- if I really wanted to focus on the drums or horns, I just had to move left or right. And when I turned around, every bit of the song moved with me.”
- Devindra Hardawar for Endgadget ︎︎︎
Peanut Butter Jelly Time VR
2018 | Dir. Jessica Brillhart
Music. Buckwheat Boyz
An immersive homage to the 2002 flash animation Peanut Butter Jelly Time created by RalphWiggum and Comrade Flynn.
708,160 unprovoked views as of March 1, 2023.
“Master piece!!! :D”
- Scarlov87
“I didn't know it moved until i saw the comments. So I touched the banana and it worked! It's SO amazing! <3”
- TravisApril Bennett
“they..surround me”
- killerbuster3000
Midnight Moment: Midnight Sunrise
2018 | Consulting and curation
Artist. Isabela Virtual
Prod. Timesquare Art Alliance, Vrai Pictures
Midnight Sunrise brings a color gradient into motion, shifting slowly from a deep midnight blue through a spectrum inspired by the sky during sunrise. At three minutes to midnight, when the sky is dark but the screens are bright in Times Square, you can look up, breathe deeply and watch the darkness become the light.
Navajo Nation
2017 | Dir. Jessica Brillhart
Prod. Lauren Simpson
Audio. Luke Allen, Silversound
Exec. Prod. Google
Collab. Navajo Nation of Bluff, Utah, Google Spotlight Stories, Ann Druyan
Off. sel. Sheffield DocFest
“ Navajo Nation transports the visitor to the mesmerising wide-open spaces of Monument Valley to study four scenes of modern Navajo life... Brillhart does not assume the POV of a Navajo, rather a genuine visitor – someone who is still, calm, reflective and respectful of the places they have entered.”
- Marisol Grandon for BFI’s Sight & Sound Magazine ︎︎︎
Excerpt from XR4C keynote It’s All Game Design ︎︎︎
Beethoven’s Fifth
2017 | Dir. Jessica Brillhart
Prod. Lauren Simpson, Luke Ritchie, Esa-Pekka Salonen
Audio. Luke Allen, Silversound
Exec. Prod. Google
Collab. Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philarmonia in London, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA Ames, Don Gurnett, Ann Druyan, Arts Council England, British Underground, Subpac, Bose
Off. sel. Sheffield DocFest, Raindance (Winner), Geneva International Film Festival, SXSW
Journey into interstellar space with a performance of “Beethoven’s Fifth, First Movement” by the Philharmonia Orchestra, London, featuring conductor, Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Part of the 40th Anniversary Celebration for NASA’s Voyager space program and the Golden Record project.
Future of Storytelling “The New Storytellers” Interview︎︎︎
Beethoven’s Fifth at the Phi Centre︎︎︎
DeepDream VR
2016 | Dir. Jessica Brillhart
Prod. Nick Kadner
Exec. Prod. Google
Collab. Google Artists and Machine Intelligence (Google AMI), Doug Fritz
A string of stereoscopic virtual reality video footage, reimagined using the machine learning algorithm, DeepDream.
“Google's latest VR experiment involves feeding footage captured by its 360-degree camera rig through the DeepDream machine...the result is a psychedelic virtual reality experience.”
- Marialla Moon for Engadget ︎︎︎
Conditions at Omaha
2016 | Dir. Jessica Brillhart
Conditions at Omaha is a three-minute long VR experience that surrounds you with four local forecasts from Omaha, Nebraska that were televised in the 90’s on The Weather Channel. While you’re in the middle of this Omaha multi-weather-verse, you’re also bathed in the smooth jazz stylings of the biggest-selling instrumental musician of the modern era and Weather Channel favorite, Kenny G.
“the greatest 360 video ever made”
- Casey Neistat ︎︎︎
“Is there a more comforting experience than sitting in your childhood living room, hypnotized by the green confetti of The Weather Channel’s doppler radar? Probably not...”
The Verge ︎︎︎
“The Weather Channel like you've never experienced it”
Mashable ︎︎︎
“I spy someone saxy playing smooth jazz in VR ;)”
Kenny G ︎︎︎