VR

The Seven-Step Verse

A VR by Ella Raidel
Country: Austria/Singapore
Year: 2022
Length: 9'

EPK
Stills/Portrait director

The documentary VR work explores the relationship between space and body in Singapore's iconic modernist shopping malls in seven scenarios. The Seven-Step Verse is inspired by the Chinese poet Cao Zhi, who believed that a poem in seven verses shows wit, speed, and creativity. The performers occupy the malls, appropriating clothing and gestures and reciting texts as they pass by - thus pointing to the underlying ideological and social hierarchies.

Festivals
1. SeaShorts Film Festival (Malaysia, September 2022)
2. 33rd Singapore International Filmfestival (Singapore, November 2022)
3. FIVARS (Canada, September 2023)
4. BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Spain, October 2023)
5. The International Alternative Media Film Festival (Mexico, November 2023)

Cast/Performer
Nicole Phua, Veronyka Lau, Valerie Koon, Smiha Kapoor, Gladis Ng*

Crew
Director: Ella Raidel
Screenplay: Ella Raidel
Producer: Ella Raidel
VR Cinematographer and VR Technical Director: Benjamin Seide
Sound recording: Vanessa Yip, Chua Xin Yun, Yang Haolin
Sound design: Ross Adrian Williams
Editor: Benjamin Seide
Composer: Ross Adrian Williams
Production design: Ella Raidel
Color correction: Benjamin Seide
Title design: Benjamin Seide