Coline Delbaere and Mathieu Pradat | DV Group

COLINE DELBAERE: Producer
Coline Delbaere, a political science graduate who specialized in “cultural expertise,” began her first years of professional international experience as a multi-disciplinary cultural programmer. She also worked as a producer for a record label, and later for a theater company and film shoots. In 2017, she joined DVgroup, where she works with original content for virtual reality productions involving actors from a multitude of artistic disciplines to contribute to the development of new forms of storytelling. Delbaere has played a leading role in world acclaimed immersive virtual reality theater installations including: Alice, the Virtual Reality Play (2017 – Marie Jourdren and Mathias Chelebourg), The Horrifically Real Virtuality (2018 – Marie Jourdren), The Roaming: Wetlands(2018 – Mathieu Pradat), Umami (2018 – Thomas Pons and Landia Egal), and PLAY! (2018) in collaboration with musician Roscius and choreographers of I Could Never be a Dancer.

MATHIEU PRADAT : Author and director

Mathieu Pradat focuses his practice on the growing interactions between real and virtual worlds, seen as new territories bearing knowledge and emotions. He explores VR’s emerging narratives forms, in particular the spatial aspect of editing specific to this new media. His short documentary and fiction pieces have been selected and awarded at numerous festivals in France and around the world, including Venice Virtual – The Venice Film Festival, the Geneva International Film Festival, the Frankfurt Biennial, the Locarno Film Festival and the Mostra de São Paulo. He is currently launching the room scale in VR fiction The Ghost of Amelie with Chloe Jarry (Camera Lucida) and a large field VR project The Roaming with Coline Delbaere (DVgroup).