YASMIN ELAYAT | Yasmin Elayat portfolio

The Changing Same

The Changing Same is an Emmy-nominated immersive, episodic virtual reality experience where participants travel through time and space to witness the connected historical experiences of racial injustice in the United States. A haunting story infused with magical realism and afrofuturism, The Changing Same examines the uninterrupted cycle of the history of racial oppression, past and present. Episode 1 premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival and won Best Immersive Narrative at Tribeca Film Festival. (2021)
Zero Days VR

Zero Days VR is an Emmy award-winning immersive documentary that explores the next chapter of modern warfare through the true story of Stuxnet: the first cyber weapon in the world known to cause real-world physical damage. The story places audiences in the invisible world of computer viruses. Based on the Participant Media feature-length documentary Zero Days, Zero Days VR made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival 2017 and available on Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, Gear VR and Within. (2017)
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Blackout

Blackout (Tribeca 2017) is an ongoing participatory, volumetric VR project gathering the reflections of real people living in today’s tense political climate through the lens of the New York subway. By creating a rotating, ‘crowd-sourced’ cast, Blackout addresses the impossible task of representing the extraordinary breadth of human experience in New York City. Each viewing of Blackout is different, surrounding you with a unique group of straphangers taking you to the places their minds go between destinations.
Here To There

“What happens if the story finds you?” An aural, spatial storytelling experiment using wearable technology that debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. A Second Story collaboration with Sci-fi Artist Lucy McRae. For more info: Second Story, TFI. More on the process and inspiration. Photos courtesy of Second Story, Tribeca Film Institute (2015)
18 Days In Egypt

18DaysInEgypt is a collaborative web-documentary about the ongoing Egyptian revolution. The project is supported by the Tribeca New Media Fund grant and Ford Foundation, was selected by the Sundance Institute New Frontier Lab, received an Honorary Mention in the Digital Communities Category of the Prix Ars Electronica 2012, and recently named one the Moments of Innovation in Participatory Documentary by MIT Open Documentary Lab & IDFA DocLab. (2011)
Times Square 4K Screen Launch

Second Story, in collaboration with Universal Everything, launched the largest 4K screen in the world. The audience co-created films that screened in a one-evening event in the middle of Times Square. For more info visit Second Story. Photos courtesy of Second Story (2014).
The Wonderbox

A contemporary revival of the culturally extinct Egyptian theater box storytelling tradition that traveled Cairo's streets with live performances. Commissioned by Mahatat For Contemporary Art. (2014)
Face The Virtrine

Public store-front interactive video installation that watches people as they pass by. Collaboration with Ganzeer. D-Caf Festival 2013. Press: PRI, Ahram Online. (2013)
InterLAB

A series of collaborative experimental workshops and site-specific exhibitions between Kazoosh and our art collective OpenLab Egypt in February and April 2013.
Egypt Journalism Project

The success of 18DaysInEgypt's on-the-ground outreach team, lead to the establishment of a citizen-journalism incubator EJP: The Egypt Journalism Project (2013)
A Friday Lunch

An on-going personal project of mine. A Friday Lunch is an animated collaborative documentary project about my family's oral history told by three-generations of women in my family.
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