Deep Dive, directed by Milosz Harmanowicz (Poland)

Deep Dive – 2020 -17 minutes and 5 seconds A wandering of two around a trauma to be faced. Deep Dive is set on the wild bank of a river where Magda, a young woman, is wandering around anxiously. An unexpected phone call from her little daughter seeking help gives her a goal. Magda now desperately wants to be reunited with her child. But the river is impossible to cross. In a moment of helplessness, an unlikely encounter takes place. Magda’s mother comes to her. Magda regains hope and leads their journey through the uncanny thickets and gloomy trees in search of a way across the river. The mother, enigmatically, keeps observing Magda without helping her. The only way back lies in their past and leads Magda to a confrontation with her deepest fears and regrets. Deep Dive was originally a 3D360/VR narrative experience. The S3D version is an experimental interpretation for 3D cinema made by the director. Milosz Hermanowicz has directed four short films. His second, Red Lady, won the grand prix of the Courant 3D festival, Angoulême, France, in 2014, and was included in the Blu-ray French 3D published by Unifrance. In 2016 he directed his first 360° film After The Apocalypse. Since 2004 he has worked as a film editor, first for TV, and then for documentary cinema projects. Aside from this he has specialised since 2011 in stereoscopic and 360° image techniques and their narrative uses. From 2012 he has been writing about those subjects for FilmPro magazine. Hermanowicz currently collaborates with the S3D and VR/AR labs at the Polish National Film School in Lodz.