The Zaatari Refugee Camp is home to over 80,000 Syrians fleeing violence and war. Out of the three virtual reality pieces I’ve seen thus far, “Clouds Over Sidra” is by far my favorite. Clouds Over Sidra (2015) Short. Vrse is now Within. CLOUDS Over Sidra, on its own, should be easy enough to dismiss. Continue to With.in. Though she is the subject of the piece, Sidra’s voice is barely heard. Clouds over Sidra is a collaboration between the UN Millennium Campaign (UNMC), UNICEF Jordan, Samsung, Vrse.works, co-created by Chris Milk and Gabo Arora.It follows the life of a young girl living in the Za’atari Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. 1.30 - 1.50 minutes [video] Available at: [Accessed 9 Sep. 2017]. Reference List Background Music: Arora, G. and Milk, C. (2015).

Add to Watchlist. Clouds Over Sidra is a 2015 virtual reality film about the Syrian refugee crisis.The movie was created by Gabo Arora and Chris Milk in partnership with the United Nations and Samsung.The film features a twelve year old in the Za'atari camp in Jordan, home to 84,000 Syrian refugees. The film follows Sidra through a typical day in her life, where you will see her school, her home, the gym, and even the football field where she plays with the other children of the camp. Clouds Over Sidra, which is the UN’s first foray into virtual reality filmmaking, makes the issue tangible by dropping users into the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. In a presentation from 2015, Milk displayed a project, Clouds Over Sidra, that follows a young girl through a day in her life at a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan. This is the story of Sidra, a 12-year old girl who has spent the last 18 months in Zaatari.

Sonic Modes Sonic modes are heard throughout Clouds over Sidra such as elements of instrumentation, texture, pitch and rhythm. Children make up half the camp's population. Added to Watchlist. Redirecting in 15 seconds… 15 seconds… A 2015 fundraising conference where Clouds Over Sidra was shown ended up raising $3.8 billion, over 70 percent more than projected. This 8 minute video depicts the daily life of a twelve year old girl named Sidra living in the Za’atari Refugee Camp for over a year. “Clouds Over Sidra” is a Virtual Reality film created by Chris Milk and Gabo Arora in partnership with the UN Millennium Campaign, UNICEF Jordan, and VRSE Hollywood production studios. That initial shot in the desert becomes an unintentional metaphor for whole piece, which writes its own perspective onto its subject in the guise of objective reality. The project is so canonical that Andrew Bosworth, head of AR/VR at Facebook, invoked it in response to the Spaces snafu. A UNICEF fundraising program found that … Clouds Over Sidra.