THE INHABITED HOUSE / LA CASA HABITADA

2019 / 8 min / 360°

Una casa perdura en el tiempo. Momentos efímeros que regresan como fantasmas analógicos. Reflexión sobre lo que fue y lo que es.

A house endures in time. Ephemeral moments that return as analog ghosts. Reflection on what was and what is.

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“These walls have seen my life.” A loving ode to the house of creator Diego Kompel’s grandparents, this short documentary offers us a warm look back on the flows of family life over time and generations. Through VR technology, we’re invited into the intimate surroundings of the grandparents’ living and dining rooms. Grown still and quiet, a dwelling that once hosted boisterous family gatherings comes vividly back to life with projections of home video footage onto its interiors. In this way, one family’s timeline across decades is ordered and made visible, reviving traces of grandparents and great-grandparents, aunts and cousins, toddlers and first footsteps in the very space where these memories were made. The Inhabited House is a wistful meditation on the textures of the familiar, and the way the interconnection of relationships are the threads that make a life. By delving into the archive of home videos, the project recalls the tradition of older technologies like film reels and slide projectors in sharing and handing down family legacies.

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Exhibitions:

- IDFA DocLab Competition for Digital Storytelling / Holanda / 2019 
- Tribeca Film Festival Cinema360 / USA / 2020
- VR Days Church of VR / Holanda / 2020
- Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival / Serbia / 2020
- Festival dei Popoli / Italia / 2020
- 360 Film Festival - SATIS Expo / Francia / 2020
- FICMA Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos / México / 2020
- KO:SH FILM FEST (Albania) 2020
- Festival de Nuevas Tecnologías Villa 31 / Argentina / 2020
- Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen / Holanda / 2020
- Open City Documentary Festival / Inglaterra / 2021
- DOQUMENTA Festival / Mexico / 2021
- Psarokokalo International Short Film Festival / Grecia / 2021
- New York Tri-State International Film Festival / Best Virtual Reality / USA / 2021
- Roma Short Film Festival / Best Virtual Reality / Italia / 2021
- Barcelona Planet Film Festival / Best Virtual Reality / España / 2021
- Mediamorfosis / Chile / 2021 
- Tokyo International Short Film Festival / Honorable Mention / Japón / 2021
- New Wave Short Film Festival / Alemania / 2021