Momchil Alexiev
About
Momchil Alexiev graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome and The Netherlands Film Academy. Over the past 12 years, he has worked as a filmmaker and theatre scenographer in Italy, Bulgaria, Denmark and The Netherlands. As co-founder of Aesop Studio research center and Actifilm, he’s worked on establishing new organic connections between performance, cinematic space and video projections. His 360-degree films have been shown at VR Days and SIFF. Momchil is founder of the first Bulgarian VR meetup VR Lab BG.
The Greatest Wait
Zei, a 3rd generation Palentinian refugee, returns to her ancestral home Haifa through virtual reality, the one way she can see Palestine. Disembodied by the virtual, she interconnects Haifa, Beirut & Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal in the 1940s, 90s, and 2020s. Zei returns home to her body with a new way of being in the world.