Arromanches
360ºArromanches 360º urges us to actively remember the atrocities of war. The 360º cinema experience plunges visitors straight into the hell in water that were the D-Day landings.
The
film, the Price of Freedom, uses previously
unreleased footage spliced together with present-day
shots of the peaceful landscape in an attempt to
create the intensity of June 1944.
The ambient lighting and the cacophonous music
blasting out of the nine speakers attempts to plunge
you head-first into the action. Through images shot
from the differing machines of war, visitors are
able to float along with the pontoons at Arromanches,
fly over Pointe du Hoc and then finally come ashore
at Omaha Beach.
Saving Private Ryan and numerous computer
games may have pulled you closer to D-Day, but Arromanches
360º drags you in.