2023 A Requiem – A Vision of Memory and Fire

Before Morantia | A VR360 Stereoscopic Film by Ragnar di Marzo

A photograph on a table. A city in collapse. A Virgin floating through orbit. A requiem, not for the past—but for what still hurts in the present.

In this immersive elegy, 2023 a Requiem confronts distance—between safety and war, between image and reality, between what we remember and what we refuse to see. Built in Blender and rendered in full VR360 stereoscopy, this film is not a statement. It is a question rendered in space.

We begin in an apartment—quiet, intimate, personal. Then, through a screen, we are pulled into a fractured world: astronauts orbit a sacred painting; Antonello da Messina’s Virgin Annunciate gazes over galaxies; Beethoven’s Ode to Joy plays as ruins bloom across the Earth. The contrast is not accidental—it is bi-association, a technique where images collide and invite meaning without dictating it.

The experience becomes both surreal and surgical. Through sound, silence, structure, and texture, 2023 a Requiem becomes a meditation on memory, grief, and the fragile resilience of beauty amid devastation.

Festival Recognition
Winner – Toronto Indie FF (Canada)
Best VR – FeKK (Slovenia)
Best VR360 – Luminary IFF (France)
VR Award – CineTech Future Fest (Poland)
Finalist – Ecovision Global (Australia)
Audience Award – ShorTS IFF (Italy)
Also honored in Spain, Germany & India

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#VR360 #Stereoscopic #6K #WarAndMemory #ImmersiveCinema