(Passive Experience – 360 Theater)

Portsmouth, Ohio (USA) poet Barbara Costas-Biggs reads her poem “Walking Past Abandoned Houses, I Think of Eric” about losing her friend to an opioid overdose, within a visually compelling immersive 360º video and ambisonic audio montage.

Director Biography – Terrance Reimer

Reimer received his Master of Fine Arts in 2020 from Ohio University’s multidisciplinary Communication Media Arts program where he studied documentary film and 360º video storytelling. Currently, his work explores the intersection of time-based media and 360º video platforms to create experimental immersive audio/video experiences. Reimer’s film projects are informed through his professional life as an educator, photojournalist and artist. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums in the US and Europe and is included in the permanent collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California.