Synopsis

A Meeting between Munch and Ibsen is an animated short film for Virtual Reality about an actual meeting between Edvard Munch and Henrik Ibsen. This meeting took place during a Munch exhibition at Blomqvist art gallery in 1895, and is documented in several of Munch’s diaries. The event and the set are recreated from authentic archive sources. The voice acting of Munch and Ibsen is performed by actors from the Norwegian National Theatre. The technique is stop motion animation for Virtual Reality, made in a way that has not been done before. With VR glasses you can move freely around inside the art gallery, and follow the conversation between Munch and Ibsen or the other events that are happening at the same time.

August Volden Skara

August Volden Skara is a Norwegian stop motion animator and short film creator. He graduated with a Bachelor Degree in animation from Volda University College in 2019 with his bachelor film Et møte mellom Munch og Ibsen, a stop motion short film made for Virtual Reality. He has been working on this film for the last years, and is finally ready to show it after years with Covid restrictions. August is interested in traditional stop motion animation, but also stop motion animation for VR and game development.