Regina filmmaker is behind the world’s first full-length virtual reality film
“I was thinking historically, if you could travel back anywhere in time, where would the majority of people want to go? … The No. 1 person they want to meet is Jesus Christ.”
Jesus VR, the first feature-length virtual reality film ever made, screened at the Venice Film Festival last week.
There was no splicing together of takes. If a scene took 14 minutes, as did Jesus’s sermon on the mountain, that’s how long it took. One mistake meant starting the whole scene over.
“You have to be in character all the time,” said Hansen.
He expects his next virtual reality project will be something kid-friendly to include his children, five-year-old John and eight-year-old Molly.
He’s not yet totally sold on the medium, because it’s so new — making a film is one thing, but marketing and selling it to audiences would be “a full-time job for two years.”
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