Venice Film Festival Unveils Virtual Reality Lineup
The Venice Film Festival, one of the first major events to embrace VR, has unveiled its 2021 Venice VR Expanded line-up.
A total of 37 projects from 21 countries will screen during this year’s VR Expanded event, including 23 works in competition.
Competition works range in length from the seven-minute Italian-Spanish production Il Dubbio — Episode 2 from directors Matteo Lonardi, Javier Lajara, and Javier Martinez, to the one-hour immersive theater production The Severance Theory: Welcome To Respite from U.S. artist Lyndsie Scoggin.
Taiwanese VR artist Hsin-Chien Huang has two works in Venice’s VR Expanded competition: Samsara, which won the Best VR Story prize at the Cannes film market’s VR showcase earlier this month, and The Starry Sand Beach, produced together with French artist Nina Barbier.
Here is the full list of 2021 Venice VR Expanded:
In Competition
Angels in Amsterdam, dirs: Anna Abrahams, Avinash Changa
End of Night, dir: David Adler
The Starry Sand Beach, dirs: Nina Barbier, Hsin-Chien Huang
Caves, dir: Isabel Garcia Carlos
Bedlam, dir: Mat Collishaw
Genesis, dir: Joerg Courtial
Spirit of Place, dir: Dale Deacon
Tearless, dir: Kim Gina
Samsara Complete Part 1 and 2 Version, dir: Hsin-Chien Huang
Clap, dir: Keisuke Itoh
Le Bal de Paris de Blanca Li, dir: Blanca Li
Bliss in the Ear of a Storm, dirs: Adam Lieber, Hal Sorta
Il Dubbio — Episode 2, dirs: Matteo Lonaradi, Javier Lajara, Javier Martinez
Anandala, dir: Kevin Mack
Goliath: Playing with Reality, dirs: Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla
Montegelato, dir: Davide Rapp
The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite, dir: Lyndsie Scoggin
Container, dir: Meghna Singh
The Sick Rose, dirs: Tang Zhi-Zhong, Huang Yun-Hsien
Myriad. Where We Connect, dirs: Lena Thiele, Sebastian Baurmann, Dirk Hoffmann
The Last Worker, dir: Jörg Tittel
Exploring Home, dir: Sara Lisa Vogl
The Final Wish, dirs: Wang Haipel, Wang Shanshan
Special Event – Out of Competition
In The Mist, dir: Chou Tung-Yen
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