Location Sound, Sound Design, 3D-Audio Mix
The new virtual reality film from Schauspielhaus Graz, “Wunderland,” written and directed by Kurdwin Ayub, premiered at the Diagonale’23. In the film, director Kurdwin Ayub takes us back to childhood by showing everyday life through the eyes of a little girl.
What does the daily life of a child sound like from their perspective in a high chair, on the floor, or between sleeping parents? Which sounds become more significant, and what sounds particularly threatening to children in a nightmare? Sound designer Eli Frauscher had a lot of fun exploring these questions and discovering new sound perspectives.
While sitting in a cave with a VR headset on and headphones with 3D sound, you experience how Mama (Maresi Riegner) and Papa (Valentin Postlmayr) take care of you. They are many things: artists, hipsters, millennials, but they are not happy.
In the modern world, a woman doesn’t always have to sacrifice her life and dreams for a child. In “Wunderland,” it’s Papa whose career is put on hold as he takes care of the child at home while Mama is successful. The child comes first. Its dreams are secondary, and conflict is inevitable. A storm rages outside, and it’s not much more peaceful inside the apartment. Love and anger alternate until everything culminates in a nightmare. In the end, Mama and Papa stay together, just like many parents stay together for too long.