My Name is Peter Stillman

VR storytelling for Paul Auster’s City of Glass

My Name is Peter Stillman

My Name is Peter Stillman is a virtual reality experience created to accompany City of Glass, a stage production inspired by Paul Auster’s celebrated first novel. Sitting in a detailed reconstruction of the apartment from the production, viewers watch themselves delivering a powerful monologue in their own reflection of a nearby window.

In the experience the viewer’s reflection dynamically mirrors their own movements as hand-drawn animation spreads across their face and the environment, distorting the line between reality and fiction as the strange and haunting story of Daniel Quinn unfolds.

My Name is Peter Stillman was commissioned by 59 Productions and supported by The Space. The VR experience toured with the production to HOME, Manchester in February 2017 and the Lyric, Hammersmith in London in April 2017 before being showcased at Venice Film Festival.

In addition to the VR experience we also developed an innovative real time face tracking projection mapping system which was to be used as part of the theatrical performance.

Credits

Inspired By
‘City Of Glass’ by Paul Auster
Voice Of Peter Stillman
Joshua James
VR Director
Lysander Ashton
Performance Director
Leo Warner
Design Concept
Leo Warner
Jenny Melville
VR Production
All Seeing Eye
Animation
Joseph Pierce
Edd Stockton
Assistant Director
Raphael Pimlott
Sound Design
Gareth Fry
Producers
Rebecca Collis
Vicky Graham
Anna Jameson
Installation Design
Claudia Fragoso
Graphic Design
Rebecca Pitt
Technicians
Iain Syme
Edward Slaney
Fabricators
KD Productions
Funded by
The Space
With Special Thanks To
Sarah Topliss
Fiona Morris
Michael Ogden

For All Seeing Eye

Creative Director
Ollie Lindsey
Technical Director
Adam Child