Claude Monet – The Water Lily Obsession

Virtual Reality

_ CLIENT

ARTE – Lucid Realities

_ RELEASE

2018 – 2019

_ TECHNOLOGY

virtual reality

Claude Monet “The Water Lily Obsession” is a VR experience & 360° video directed by Nicolas Thépot.

This experience is the first episode of the Arte Trips collection, an immersive series in major works of art, co-produced by ARTE. It has been shown at Musée de l’Orangerie for four months from Novembre 2018 to March 2019. With the support of Vive Arts.

For this project, Novelab was in charge of the sound design & the videos exportation.

_Credits

_DIRECTED BY
Nicolas Thépot

_FRENCH ACTORS
Georges Claisse (Claude Monet)
Didier Bénureau (Georges Clémenceau)

_EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Chloé Jarry

_GRAPHIC CREATION & DEVELOPMENT
Hugo Arcier
Studio N°130

_WITH THE SUPPORT OF
CNC
Fonds Nouveaux Médias & Fonds Transmédia de la Ville de Paris

_SOUND DESIGN & VIDEO EXPORT
Novelab

_ORIGINAL MUSIC
George Lepauw (International Beethoven project)

_ENGLISH ACTORS
Geoffrey Bateman (Claude Monet)
Peter Hudson (Georges Clémenceau)

_PRODUCTION MANAGER
Alessandra Bogi

_CO-PRODUCERS
ARTE France
Lucid Realities
Camera lucida productions
Musées d’Orsay Et de L’Orangerie
Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion

_DISTRIBUTION
Lucid Realities

CONTEXT

In 1883 painter Claude Monet first rented a house in the French town of Giverny. After purchasing the property and adjoining land, the artist transformed an existing small pond into a water garden with water lilies and a Japanese-style bridge from which he could observe the water and the flowers.

From 1899 to 1926, Monet painted more than 250 scenes devoted to the water lily theme, which became what he himself called “an obsession.”

THE EXPERIENCE

Through a dialogue between Claude Monet and his old friend, stateman George Clemenceau, this contemplative VR experience invites the user on a sensory journey starting off in Claude Monet’s garden, stopping along the way at the workshop of the artist and ending in the exhibition rooms of the Orangerie Museum.

The user is given the opportunity to relive a perpetual renewal of nature, to explore time and space while immersed in the Water lilies paintings.