LO 11 – Women Practitioners

Milica Zec is a VR filmmaker who focuses on creating stories to raise awareness of societal and environmental issues. Growing up in Serbia, she witnessed war, bombings, and unrest as a child. Her tumultuous childhood inspires her work, in which she hopes to preserve what is precious through creating new realities. 

Milica’s second VR film, Trees, places a viewer in the middle of a rainforest as an immobile tree that grows from a seed and eventually is destroyed by a wildfire, as the viewer watches, helpless as they cannot do anything to save the tree or forest. In a talk at the World Economic Forum, she describes how the film was so moving that many viewers came out in tears, finally understanding climate change on an innate and personal level.

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I watched Trees online through a 2D youtube video. While I didn’t experience it the way it was meant to be viewed, I could immediately understand how powerful its message could be when immersing a viewer in these surroundings. I’m excited to see how her next project, Rainforest, continues this message in a more interactive way.