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NFB releases reinvention of award-winning wildlife doc, Bear 71

NFB releases reinvention of award-winning wildlife doc, Bear 71

Montreal – The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) has released a virtual-reality reinvention of its multi-award-winning interactive doc Bear 71, now available free on Chrome as Bear 71 VR. Originally launched in 2012, Bear 71 is an acclaimed interactive multi-user online experience told from the point of view of an omniscient female grizzly bear―dubbed “Bear 71” by the park rangers who track…

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Bear71 is the true story of a female grizzly bear monitored by wildlife conservation officers from 2001-2009. She lived her life under near-constant surveillance and was continually stressed by interactions with the human world.

She was tracked and logged as data, reflecting the way we have come to see the world around us through Tron and Matrix-like filters, qualifying and quantifying everything, rather than experiencing and interacting.

Leanne Allison sifted through thousands of photos from motion-triggered trail cameras for this project. The grainy images gathered over the past 10 years by various scientists reveal the hidden life of the forest, played out by the animals and humans - including Bear71 - captured covertly on film.