A THREE-hundred-and-sixty-degree documentary showcasing Indigenous performing arts premiered regionally at the Discovery Centre\u2019s planetarium last Sunday.<\/p>\n
Titled Carriberrie<\/em>, the film will play four more times in Bendigo, once a month until December, and has been shown at multiple international and national film festivals since its 2018 world premiere in Sydney.<\/p>\n General manager of the Discovery Centre Alissa Van Soest said she thought it was \u201cincredible\u201d that there is so much content being created that uses the unique projection methods of planetariums.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019d never heard of a planetarium until I moved to Bendigo, and then I got here, and I got to not only experience it but learn about them and the amazingly immersive experience that planetariums can be,\u201d said Ms Van Soest.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re not just looking at a screen, you\u2019re surrounded by the image and the sound and it\u2019s even more immersive than an IMAX video, you\u2019re right in amongst it all, and you can sort of forget where you are.<\/p>\n \u201cThe fact that we\u2019re now able to access content that other planetariums around the world use, it\u2019s really exciting.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so cool to know that that\u2019s now available to Bendigo, and that not only can we create our own content, but that we\u2019re part of a network of other planetariums around the world who all share that content.\u201d<\/p>\n While planetariums are generally places people go to see projections of space, Ms Van Soest said the dome-shaped screen offers other opportunities.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s awesome, you do think planetarium and you think stars, but I\u2019ve been under the ocean, I\u2019ve been to the Great Barrier Reef, we went and visited the Grand Canyon last week\u201d she said.<\/p>\n