Sea Prayer (2017)
A VR Experience by Guardian
Commissioned by Guardian for Kronos Quartet and David Coulter
For string quartet, toys and musical saw
Award-winning novelist Khaled Hosseini commemorates the second anniversary of the death of the three-year-old Syrian refugee with an illustrated story animated in a virtual reality film. The night before a potentially fatal journey, a father reflects with his son on their life in Syria before the war – and on their unknown future
By Khaled Hosseini, Adeel Akhtar, Liz Edwards, Francesca Panetta, Nicole Jackson, Shehani Fernando, Mona Mahmood, Anrick Bregman, Andrew Mason, Anetta Jones, Lisa Golden, Peregrine Andrews, So When, Kronos Quartet and UNHCR
Sea Prayer: a 360 illustrated film by award-winning novelist Khaled Hosseini Scroll to the right as the story progresses. 360 videos do not currently function in Safari, please use Chrome. Inspired by the story of Alan Kurdi, the three-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, Khaled Hosseini, the novelist and Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has written an exclusive story brought to life in virtual reality. The night before a potentially fatal journey, a father reflects with his son on their life in Syria before the war – and on their unknown future