You are Lady Sapiens, you were born 38,000 years ago. You are experiencing the place of women in the clan, but that’s not the end of the story.
No, women were not out picking while men were hunting. The Director Camille Duvelleroy imagined a virtual reality experience bases on the most recent scientific discoveries, evolving in a sumptuous graphic universe designed by Ubisoft. Lady Sapiens, the experience offers a journey through time in the body of a Sapiens woman.
Plunged into the heart of an ancestral valley, you make the unforgettable encounter of a paleolithic huntress. She invites you to follow her and leads you to her clan. In a painted cave, she introduces you to a shaman woman, who familiarises you to cave painting. In the heart of the village, you are invited to a hut where you learn how to carve your own tool, a spear, which will later allow you to take part in a mammoth hunt…
Welcome to the Paleolithic.
The global project Lady Sapiens is the result of a unique partnership between a producer, Little Big Story, a broadcaster, France Télévisions, and a video game publisher: Ubisoft. For the documentary, the teams filmed inside the game Far Cry Primal. This game was designed with the advice of scientists and historians, including Jacques Malaterre, co-author of the film. The VR experience is a co-production between Little Big Story, Little Big Story Lab, Ubisoft and France Télévisions using the game's assets. The Far Cry license is one of the most successful video games, selling more than 38 million units worldwide (Ubisoft data).
The whole Lady Sapiens project is placed under the scientific guidance of prehistorian Sophie Archambault de Beaune. Based on the scientific investigation of the film, Lady Sapiens, the experience offers an immersion in the daily life of a Paleolithic woman.
Sophie de Beaune is a culturalist prehistorian who conducts her research at the CNRS Arscan laboratory (Archaeology and Science of Antiquity) at the University of Nanterre. She is a member of the Prehistoric Ethnology team and teaches prehistory at Lyon 3 Jean Moulin University.
