6th FullDome Festival - Jena

The Zeiss-Planetarium in Jena would like to invite you to the 6th FullDome Festival to be held in Jena, Germany from May 8 to 12, 2012. By the sixth year of its existence, the FullDome Festival has established itself as a leading forum of discourse about the young and innovative medium and elicited worldwide response and participation. The Festival is open to the public and does not require any registration fees.

The 6th FullDome Festival again will show professional, independent and student productions in different categories. As in the previous years, student fulldome productions, fulldome short films and full-length feature shows will be shown. The thematic focus in 2012 is on the concept of »Dissolving Space«, a term that will be freely interpreted in all categories.

In 2012 the full-length feature shows will be a major part of the FullDome Festival. We got 30 shows registered from around the world to be screened in the afternoon and late sessions from Tuesday, May 8 to Thursday May 10. The Festival is a great opportunity to see and judge the latest productions for fulldome theaters! The shows will be presented in English with the exception of one German submission. We are going to introduce all show submissions on our Facebook site.

The FullDome Festival will offer you additional workshops, presentations and discussions about many different aspects of the fulldome, addressing technical, philosophical and media-specific questions. We would encourage you to consider presenting a paper or propose a workshop/panel session. The Festival will gather producers, lecturers, students, planetarians, fulldome users and enthusiasts in one spot. There will be time to meet and great and to join a good German beer in the Festival Lounge.

The Students' Night on Friday evening, May 11, will be one of the top highlights of the FullDome Festival. We are expecting amazing fulldome clips from internationally based students exploring the fulldome medium in new and fresh ways. The Students' Night will offer fulldome content of another kind. Welcome forward-looking aspects of the fulldome medium: new stylistic devices and uncommon perspectives, filling out the intersection between science visualization, tasteful entertainment and artistic enactment. Join us at the fulldome party Friday night.

The best of the best in fulldome will be presented at the Festival Gala on Saturday, May 12. The Gala includes student's clips, professional shows and short films. The new VELVET display and spatial wave sound systems in the Jena Planetarium will be a feast to your eyes and ears. The Gala will present the FullDome Awards of the 6th Festival chosen by an independent jury and the audience.

The interest in fulldome among people engaged in movie making, 3D animation and media art is growing. The Festival proves that the fulldome medium is advancing. Fulldome is getting increasingly attractive to scientists, artists and movie makers. While the FullDome Festival cannot determine definitely where the development will lead to, it will point out feasible ways and make new trends, themes and techniques visible. Jena, the site of the world's oldest large-dome planetarium, once again will be the venue, expert forum and marketplace of the international fulldome scene.

Jena is a beautiful city located in the State of Thuringia in Germany with a nice surrounding. Weimar, Leipzig and Erfurt are in close vicinity. Major airports with international service are in Frankfurt, Munich and Berlin, airports in Leipzig, Erfurt and Nuremburg are the closest to Jena. Enjoy the spring in the middle of Germany. If you are considering to join the German Planetarium Society meeting in Wolfsburg, May 6/7, extend your travel plans and include the FullDome Festival in Jena.

We like to express our sincere thanks to all sponsors of the FullDome Festival, among them the Ernst Abbe-Foundation, operating the Jena Zeiss-Planetarium, Carl Zeiss AG, Bowen Technovation, and all Fulldome Theaters licensing the FullDome Festival Reel.

Further details are available on the following web sites:
http://www.fulldome-festival.de
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FullDome-Festival/216689971695340
http://www.planetarium-jena.de