Momchil Alexiev 

Graduate from La Sapienza University in Rome and The Netherlands Film Academy. Over the past 12 years he works as a filmmaker and theatre scenographer in Italy, Bulgaria, Denmark and The Netherlands. As co-founder of Aesop Studio research center (since 2009) he works on establishing new organic connections between performance, cinematic space and video projections. His recent work is a continuation of this process. In it he questions the notion of spectatorship in the context of virtual reality and immersive media. His 360 degree films have been shown at numerous festivals like VR Days and SIFF. Momchil is founder of the first Bulgarian VR meetup VR Lab BG and fellow at Sundance Institute. The focus of his projects is to raise a discussion on the changing conditions of film spectatorship and introduce the idea of immersiveness as a tool for storytelling.