Charles Ayats

Charles Ayats is a writer director and immersive/interactive experience designer. His experience “Phi” was selected for the Arte/NFB Interactive Haiku project. He is passionate about making informative, meaningful, innovative, politically engaged work, in the form of web documentaries (such as, “Check-in”, “Pas si bêtes les Animaux”, and “Tati Express”), and video games, like Type:Rider, a three-part game on the history of typography, which he co-directed in 2013. 

Always on the look out for new forms of story-telling, he often participates in hackathons (Artgame weekend, StoryHack Tribecca/ Cern, Game in the city, HackLaMisère) as a way to enrich his previous experience and training (Cifap, Gobelins, Dixit, INA). 

A lover of virtual reality, he adapted Marc-Antoine Mathieu’s graphic novel SENS (2016) for VR. The work is a voyage through an invisible labyrinth exploring both the notion of the absurd and the place of the player within the game. He also co-wrote “7 Lives” (2019) an interactive VR experience directed by Jan Kounen, which blends interactive 360° surround video with real-time 3D graphics, and “Le Cri” (2019) based on the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch. 

After making an augmented reality short film, M.O.A (2020), adapted from Alain Damasio’s futuristic novel “The Shealthies”, he is continuing his explorations in story-telling, bodies and space with live performance projects, including Colonie.s and No reality now.