Perkons: A VR Rockumentary (2018)

Perkons: A VR Rockumentary tells the story of how a rock band from Latvia shook the Soviet establishment with homemade instruments, 2 KW sound system and a hard rock sound. Perkons was banned twice. Many of their fans were arrested, some were put on a public show trial and one was sentenced to 3 years in a hard labor camp. But the harder the authorities tried to silence Perkons, the more powerful their music became. Inspired by Latvian and Russian art of the '80s (in particular the work of Andris Brezhe and Ilya Kabakov), the virtual reality film creates an immersive 3D collage that juxtaposes Soviet-era architecture, archival footage, cutouts from 1980s magazines and 3D model texture made out of the band's original sheet music.