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    Health & Well-being

    The Waiting Room VR

    By First Person Films

    The Waiting Room is a VR journey that tells the story of Victoria Mapplebeck’s breast cancer (as patient and artist), from diagnosis through treatment to recovery. The Waiting Room uses film and audio recorded by Victoria over 18 months of treatment, documenting her time in waiting rooms, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and at home with her teenage son. The Waiting Room VR provides an intimate and visceral portrait of cancer treatment and its transformative impact on the body and family life.

    The linchpin of the VR piece is one nine-minute 360-degree take, a reconstruction of Victoria’s last session of radiotherapy, which marked the end of nine months of breast cancer treatment. This experience is counterbalanced by a CGI journey inside her body. Working with 3D artists, Victoria brought to life the medical imaging she had collected throughout treatment. Cancer cells, CT scans, mammograms and ultrasound provide a 3D portrait of her body from the inside out. "

    The Waiting Room begins with a personal journey, but as cancer affects one in two of us over the course of a lifetime, it also tells a very universal story. Moving beyond sentimentality and survivor/victim binaries, the project disrupts the objectification of the medical gaze and reminds the audience of the person behind the diagnosis.

    The Waiting Room VR project won The IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling and was selected for Forbes’s Top 50 XR experiences of 2019.

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    Credits

    • Writer / Director / Producer
      Victoria Mapplebeck
    • Producers 
      Shehani Fernando
      Darren Emerson
    • 360 Camera Operator
      Darren Emerson
    • Creative Technologist
      Luca Biada
    • Sound 
      John Wakefield
      Henrik Oppermann
    • Advisors
      Mandy Rose
      May Abdalla
    • Editors and After Effects
      Conan Roberts
      Jack Howard
      Anton Yavorsky
    • Grade
      Conan Roberts
    • Executive Producers
      Catherine Allen
      Darren Emerson
    • Virtual Realities
      Documentary Encounters Team
      Kirsten Cater
      Danaë Stanton Fraser
      Mandy Rose
      Hannah Brady
      Chris Bevan
      Dave Green
      Harry Farmer
      Helen Brown
      Jo Gildersleve
    • The Waiting Room VR was commissioned as part of the Virtual Realities – Immersive Documentary Encounters. It was funded by the EPSRC, The University of Bristol, University of Bath, and the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), in partnership with Watershed. 
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