Short film "Arden's Wake" by American Eugene YK Chung won the Best Virtual Reality Award at the 74th Venice Film Festival Saturday evening.
"Arden's Wake" is a 16-minute-long animation feature telling the story of a little girl who lives with her father on the water.
"This is a new art form, and it is an incredible honor that the world's oldest film festival has embraced for the first time this art form in official competition," he said.
A Best VR Experience Award (for interactive content) went to "La camera insabbiata" by artists Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang, a VR installation that allows viewers to lose themselves in a fully interactive, and immersive animation journey.
A Best VR Story Award (for linear content) went to "Bloodless" by South Korean filmmaker Gina Kim. Based on a true story, the 12-minute-long VR film tells of the last moments of life of a sex worker, who was brutally killed by an American soldier in a U.S. army camp-town in South Korea in the early 1990s.
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