Reportage about seeking Refuge: 360 eXodus

Together with the Wiener Zeitung, Caritas Austria and T-Mobile, an immersive journalistic work was produced with the aim of encouraging discussions on the topic of refugees.

About the client

The Wiener Zeitung is the oldest daily newspaper in the world still in publication.

“vrisch did an outstanding job during the making of our project, always keeping an eye for detail on each stage of the process. Working with them was a pleasure because of how easy it was to communicate our ideas.”

—Thomas Seifert, vice editor-in-chief of Wiener Zeitung

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The Challenge

Austrian newspaper Wiener Zeitung, together with social organization Caritas Austria and telecom company T-Mobile, wanted to create their first immersive journalistic piece. The function of this 360 video documentary was to serve as a debate-stimulating tool on the topic of refugees intended for Austrian teenage students within the context of Caritas’s youth social work.

The Solution

Together with Wiener Zeitung, we traveled to the refugee camp of Moussa Taleb in Lebanon to gather the testimonies of Syrian refugees on their journey to Lebanon. We also collected the stories of the Syrian refugees who chose Austria as their new safe haven. Most of the people we interviewed were of a similar age as the people the project intended to reach, adding an extra layer of empathy to the final message. All the stories were placed together in a way that would help viewers reflect on the topics of humanitarian assistance, displacement, and the determination to survive, inviting them to start a dialog with one another on these topics.