The Unknown Photographer

The Unknown Photographer is an immersive experience based on almost 300 photographs of World War I, which Montreal director Philippe Baylaucq found as a teenager in 1974 in an abandoned house in Morin Heights, north of Montreal. Years later, Baylaucq passed the photos on to a friend, photographer Bertrand Carrière, who used them as the basis for a photo exhibition, Lieux Mêmes, as well as a short documentary, Finding Fletcher Wade Moses. For over 10 years, Carrière tried to find some trace of what happened to the owner of the photo collection, without success. ==User experience==

The Unknown Photographer's VR experience involves a walk through a kind of "surrealist museum," exploring these World War I photographs. The production offers users three possible narratives, accompanied by spoken word passages on the horrors of war, written by novelist Catherine Mavrikakis, narrated in English by Julian Casey and in French by François Papineau. The experience lasts 20 to 50 minutes, depending on the choices users make. ==Release==

The Unknown Photographer premiered at the Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal on November 13, 2015. ==See also==