Rosario Dawson is joining the world of virtual reality. The Ahsoka actress will narrate a VR project called Soul Paint. Executive produced by Biennale Cinema’s Venice Immersive exhibition curator Liz Rosenthal and produced by Monobanda and Hatsumi studios, the project will premiere during Swsx in Austin.
Soul Paint will be available for the Meta Quest 2 and 3 VR headsets, “blending science and art to illustrate the infinite and complex networks of emotions and experiences that live within each of us” according to the project’s developers.
The projects allows users to embark on an immersive journey, led by Dawson, in which emotions and bodily sensations can be conveyed by making them visible in a virtual space. Interaction is achieved through body mapping to render movement as accurately as possible. Participants can also interact with the virtual world through three-dimensional drawings.
“We often rely on our intellect to make sense of the human experience,...
Soul Paint will be available for the Meta Quest 2 and 3 VR headsets, “blending science and art to illustrate the infinite and complex networks of emotions and experiences that live within each of us” according to the project’s developers.
The projects allows users to embark on an immersive journey, led by Dawson, in which emotions and bodily sensations can be conveyed by making them visible in a virtual space. Interaction is achieved through body mapping to render movement as accurately as possible. Participants can also interact with the virtual world through three-dimensional drawings.
“We often rely on our intellect to make sense of the human experience,...
- 3/8/2024
- by Damiano D’Agostino
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“The Walled Off Hotel VR Experience” will offer a virtual trip to The Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, established and curated by internationally famed British street artist Banksy. The Red Sea Fund has joined investors from Fff-Bayern, Creative Europe and the German Games Fund.
The experience, directed by Amer Shomali and Clarens Grollmann, gives the user the possibility of moving freely within the space of the hotel and the neighboring Israeli-Palestinian wall, making an important contemporary artwork more accessible. The boutique hotel was opened in March 2017 and displays artworks as well as offering rooms to paying guests as a fully functioning hotel. As well as offering a unique opportunity to visit the hotel, the VR experience will also include stories from the region and interactions.
Producer May Odeh told Variety: “We decided to make it as a VR experience, since we know that not a lot of people could not...
The experience, directed by Amer Shomali and Clarens Grollmann, gives the user the possibility of moving freely within the space of the hotel and the neighboring Israeli-Palestinian wall, making an important contemporary artwork more accessible. The boutique hotel was opened in March 2017 and displays artworks as well as offering rooms to paying guests as a fully functioning hotel. As well as offering a unique opportunity to visit the hotel, the VR experience will also include stories from the region and interactions.
Producer May Odeh told Variety: “We decided to make it as a VR experience, since we know that not a lot of people could not...
- 12/8/2022
- by John Bleasdale
- Variety Film + TV
The training centre will launch next summer with an annual €500,000 budget.
Veneto Film Commission is joining forces with the nation’s public film institute Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia to launch a first-of-a-kind virtual reality technology school in northern Italy.
“This the first such school in Italy, and it is ahead of the curve on a European level and will put us in the position of being able to provide supply to the demand that will be increasing for VR technology in coming years,” Veneto Film Commission director Jacopo Chessa said.
The announcement of the new immersive technology school in the...
Veneto Film Commission is joining forces with the nation’s public film institute Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia to launch a first-of-a-kind virtual reality technology school in northern Italy.
“This the first such school in Italy, and it is ahead of the curve on a European level and will put us in the position of being able to provide supply to the demand that will be increasing for VR technology in coming years,” Veneto Film Commission director Jacopo Chessa said.
The announcement of the new immersive technology school in the...
- 9/5/2022
- by Alina Trabattoni
- ScreenDaily
Marion Cotillard will star as Coco Chanel in “Rencontre(s) ,” an immersive, interactive, and multi-sensorial project that whisks participants back to Paris of the Roaring Twenties. Making its world premiere as part of the Venice Film Festival’s recently rebranded Venice Immersive showcase for new-media projects, the pop-history experience mixes live elements with 2D animation and Xr embellishments to retrace the creation of Chanel No 5. Variety debuts the teaser here (below).
Commissioned by Chanel and produced by Paris-based studio Atelier Daruma, the 15-minute immersive experience puts participants into the shoes of Ernest Beaux, the Russo-French perfumer who created the iconic elixir for the fashion icon. Voicing an animated version of Coco Chanel in both English and French, the Oscar-winning actress plays the designer at the height of her Queen of Paris fame, as a 38-year-old doyenne and magnetic pole for the city’s modernist and avant-garde scenes.
“Marion did an incredible job visualizing,...
Commissioned by Chanel and produced by Paris-based studio Atelier Daruma, the 15-minute immersive experience puts participants into the shoes of Ernest Beaux, the Russo-French perfumer who created the iconic elixir for the fashion icon. Voicing an animated version of Coco Chanel in both English and French, the Oscar-winning actress plays the designer at the height of her Queen of Paris fame, as a 38-year-old doyenne and magnetic pole for the city’s modernist and avant-garde scenes.
“Marion did an incredible job visualizing,...
- 9/1/2022
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
There is much to be gleaned about the future of creativity from the work being made in virtual reality: From Sundance to Burning Man, the past year has offered many examples of successful large-scale virtual events in 3D. However, among the major fall film festivals, only Venice’s VR Expanded section has made room for the emerging medium, and only the most recent edition showcased a key aspect of VR’s expansion that is poised to grow prominent: the social side.
In addition to the 24 projects in Competition and a handful of others, programmers Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac curated a selection of 34 user-generated worlds created in social platform VRChat. The spaces ranged from sci-fi and adventure quest themes to full-on artworks and interactive music videos, many of which were built on massive scales inconceivable for any physical festival space.
Throughout the festival, the programmers hosted special events and “world...
In addition to the 24 projects in Competition and a handful of others, programmers Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac curated a selection of 34 user-generated worlds created in social platform VRChat. The spaces ranged from sci-fi and adventure quest themes to full-on artworks and interactive music videos, many of which were built on massive scales inconceivable for any physical festival space.
Throughout the festival, the programmers hosted special events and “world...
- 9/14/2021
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Venice works with VR platforms including Facebook-owned Oculus and Viveport, which do not allow nudity and sex, for example.
Venice VR Expanded co-creators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac have warned of freedom of expression issues threatening to stop daring and ground-breaking VR work being seen widely.
The Venice organisers need to work with the leading VR platforms, who are generally strong supporters of artists in the fast growing VR field, in order to distribute virtual-reality projects online. The hitch comes with what these platforms are allowing to be seen.
“They have a very strict moral code with very strictly defined family moral values,...
Venice VR Expanded co-creators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac have warned of freedom of expression issues threatening to stop daring and ground-breaking VR work being seen widely.
The Venice organisers need to work with the leading VR platforms, who are generally strong supporters of artists in the fast growing VR field, in order to distribute virtual-reality projects online. The hitch comes with what these platforms are allowing to be seen.
“They have a very strict moral code with very strictly defined family moral values,...
- 9/3/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Venice works with VR platforms including Facebook-owned Oculus and Viveport, which do not allow nudity and sex, for example.
Venice VR Expanded co-creators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac have warned of a creeping censorship issue threatening to stop daring and ground-breaking VR work being seen widely.
The Venice organisers need to work with platforms including Facebook-owned Oculus and Viveport, which is owned by Taiwan’s Htc, in order to distribute virtual reality projects online. The hitch comes with what these platforms are allowing to be seen.
“They have a very strict moral code with very strictly defined family moral values,...
Venice VR Expanded co-creators Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac have warned of a creeping censorship issue threatening to stop daring and ground-breaking VR work being seen widely.
The Venice organisers need to work with platforms including Facebook-owned Oculus and Viveport, which is owned by Taiwan’s Htc, in order to distribute virtual reality projects online. The hitch comes with what these platforms are allowing to be seen.
“They have a very strict moral code with very strictly defined family moral values,...
- 9/3/2021
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
The SXSW Film Festival has revealed its Jury and Special Award winners of the 28th edition of the fest, which took place virtually this week. The Megan Park-directed high school shooting tragedy The Fallout took the top award in the Narrative Feature category, while Jeremy Workman’s portrait of Lily Hevesh, Lily Topples the World, won in the Documentary Feature category.
Also on the narrative side, Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina’s I’m Fine Thanks for Asking) won a Special Jury Recognition for Multi-hyphenate Storyteller. Martin Edralin’s Islands also took home a Special Jury Recognition for Breakthrough Performance for actor Rogelio Balagtas.
In the docu feature competition Rachel Fleit’s Introducing, Selma Blair was honored with Special Jury Recognition for Exceptional Intimacy in Storytelling. Meanwhile, Nicholas Bruckman’s Not Going Quietly scored Special Jury Recognition for Humanity in Social Action.
“We are so honored by the 2021 filmmakers...
Also on the narrative side, Kelley Kali and Angelique Molina’s I’m Fine Thanks for Asking) won a Special Jury Recognition for Multi-hyphenate Storyteller. Martin Edralin’s Islands also took home a Special Jury Recognition for Breakthrough Performance for actor Rogelio Balagtas.
In the docu feature competition Rachel Fleit’s Introducing, Selma Blair was honored with Special Jury Recognition for Exceptional Intimacy in Storytelling. Meanwhile, Nicholas Bruckman’s Not Going Quietly scored Special Jury Recognition for Humanity in Social Action.
“We are so honored by the 2021 filmmakers...
- 3/19/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
New strand will include a prize for best film.
The Venice Film Festival is to introduce a new strand at its 78th edition in September, replacing its Sconfini section with a new Horizons strand.
Horizons Extra will be an extension of the competitive Horizons strand, focusing on new trends in world cinema. The section will comprise a selection of titles “less constrained by standards of length and format”, as long as they last more than 60 minutes. A jury comprising audience members will award a prize to the best film in the section, with further details of how this will work currently in discussion.
The Venice Film Festival is to introduce a new strand at its 78th edition in September, replacing its Sconfini section with a new Horizons strand.
Horizons Extra will be an extension of the competitive Horizons strand, focusing on new trends in world cinema. The section will comprise a selection of titles “less constrained by standards of length and format”, as long as they last more than 60 minutes. A jury comprising audience members will award a prize to the best film in the section, with further details of how this will work currently in discussion.
- 1/18/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
The Venice Film Festival is tweaking its sections as it gears up for its upcoming 78th edition in September.
After announcing that “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho will preside over the main jury, the Lido on Monday opened up for film submissions and said in a statement that the fest’s Sconfini section — which had been scrapped last year to free up more space for the socially-distanced screenings — is being replaced by a new section called Horizons Extra.
Horizons Extra will be an extension of Venice’s competitive Horizons (Orrizonti) section that focuses on new trends in world cinema, but will be “less constrained by standards of length and format,” the Venice statement said. The new sidebar is for “works with no limits of genre, duration and destination, as long as they last more than 60 minutes,” it added. Prizes will be decided by a jury of audience members “following criteria and procedures to be announced.
After announcing that “Parasite” director Bong Joon Ho will preside over the main jury, the Lido on Monday opened up for film submissions and said in a statement that the fest’s Sconfini section — which had been scrapped last year to free up more space for the socially-distanced screenings — is being replaced by a new section called Horizons Extra.
Horizons Extra will be an extension of Venice’s competitive Horizons (Orrizonti) section that focuses on new trends in world cinema, but will be “less constrained by standards of length and format,” the Venice statement said. The new sidebar is for “works with no limits of genre, duration and destination, as long as they last more than 60 minutes,” it added. Prizes will be decided by a jury of audience members “following criteria and procedures to be announced.
- 1/18/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
In early 2018, Intel Studios launched with the modest proposal that it would revolutionize the art of visual storytelling. Located near Lax, the 25,000-square-foot Intel Studios contain a cavernous, metallic ring that looked like some kind of covert alien technology. It also has a 10,000-square-foot capture area for volumetric video, where actors can perform movements rendered holographically on computer screens for VR and Ar.
Over the next two years, Intel Studios recorded a music video for VR evangelist Reggie Watts, and partnered with Paramount on an ambitious promotional video for the 40th anniversary of “Grease.” They were entertaining projects, but Intel Studios director Diego Prilusky said the company has grander ambitions.
“VR is a window that allows you to get into an alternative dimension,” Prilusky said. “I know that sound a little sci-fi. But we should very soon be in a position where technology is not the main conversation when it comes to the experience itself…...
Over the next two years, Intel Studios recorded a music video for VR evangelist Reggie Watts, and partnered with Paramount on an ambitious promotional video for the 40th anniversary of “Grease.” They were entertaining projects, but Intel Studios director Diego Prilusky said the company has grander ambitions.
“VR is a window that allows you to get into an alternative dimension,” Prilusky said. “I know that sound a little sci-fi. But we should very soon be in a position where technology is not the main conversation when it comes to the experience itself…...
- 9/30/2020
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Taiwan brings virtual reality (VR) projects featured at this year’s Venice Film Festival to the island as one of the world’s 15 local hosts of the event’s competition section as it gains a greater international foothold in the discipline that blends cinema and technology.
Forty-four VR films from 24 countries — including three from Taiwan — in the Venice VR Expanded, the official virtual reality competition of the 77th Venice Film Festival running, are available to viewers on the self-governed island at Taipei’s Changchun Ambassador Theaters through Sept. 12, beamed via a satellite network.
Festival organizers changed the VR section format to online due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. While online access is available, those who visit the theaters in person can watch the films with special headsets. On Sept. 7, Taicca will host a live-stream forum on the future of cultural content at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Taiwan is...
Forty-four VR films from 24 countries — including three from Taiwan — in the Venice VR Expanded, the official virtual reality competition of the 77th Venice Film Festival running, are available to viewers on the self-governed island at Taipei’s Changchun Ambassador Theaters through Sept. 12, beamed via a satellite network.
Festival organizers changed the VR section format to online due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. While online access is available, those who visit the theaters in person can watch the films with special headsets. On Sept. 7, Taicca will host a live-stream forum on the future of cultural content at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Taiwan is...
- 9/7/2020
- by Vivienne Chow
- Variety Film + TV
“It needs to be recognised in the way that film is recognised.”
Virtual Reality is taking hold on the Lido as Venice, the only A-list festival which has its own Vr competition, ramps up its Vr offerings yet further.
“[Vr] is a new form of storytelling and art and it needs to be recognised in the same way that film is recognised,” said Liz Rosenthal, co-programmer of Venice Vr alongside Michel Reilhac.
The Venice competition is divided into two strands. Linear and Interactive. There is also an Out of Competition/Best Of Vr section.
“What we felt was that Vr was...
Virtual Reality is taking hold on the Lido as Venice, the only A-list festival which has its own Vr competition, ramps up its Vr offerings yet further.
“[Vr] is a new form of storytelling and art and it needs to be recognised in the same way that film is recognised,” said Liz Rosenthal, co-programmer of Venice Vr alongside Michel Reilhac.
The Venice competition is divided into two strands. Linear and Interactive. There is also an Out of Competition/Best Of Vr section.
“What we felt was that Vr was...
- 8/30/2019
- by Geoffrey Macnab
- ScreenDaily
Running Aug. 29-Sept. 7, the third edition of Venice Vr will spotlight 39 unique projects, with 26 unspooling in the competition overseen by jury president Laurie Anderson and 13 more screening in the non-competitive Best of Vr section.
Once more, curators Michel Reilhac and Liz Rosenthal have divided the Venice Vr competition into two unique sections — one dedicated to 360° linear films and the other to more outwardly interactive projects.
Three of the 12 films competing in the linear category come from last year’s Grand Prize-winning studio, Atlas V.
The Paris-based production house, which took top honors with 2018’s “Spheres,” will bring a new installment of its popular series “BattleScar — Punk Was Invented by Girls.” The coming-of-age narrative is anchored by actress Rosario Dawson. It is also screening “Ex Anima Experience,” an equestrian show made in partnership with French circus artist Bartabas, and “Gloomy Eyes,” a Tim Burton-esque animated film from directors Jorge Tereso and Fernando Maldonado.
Once more, curators Michel Reilhac and Liz Rosenthal have divided the Venice Vr competition into two unique sections — one dedicated to 360° linear films and the other to more outwardly interactive projects.
Three of the 12 films competing in the linear category come from last year’s Grand Prize-winning studio, Atlas V.
The Paris-based production house, which took top honors with 2018’s “Spheres,” will bring a new installment of its popular series “BattleScar — Punk Was Invented by Girls.” The coming-of-age narrative is anchored by actress Rosario Dawson. It is also screening “Ex Anima Experience,” an equestrian show made in partnership with French circus artist Bartabas, and “Gloomy Eyes,” a Tim Burton-esque animated film from directors Jorge Tereso and Fernando Maldonado.
- 8/27/2019
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
If 2017 marked the birth of virtual reality on a global scale, this year’s competition roster of 30 world-premiering Vr films at Venice Film Festival shows that the medium is coming of age, with star-powered experiences such as “Spheres” and “Crow: The Legend,” and socially-minded titles like “Home After War: Returning to Fear in Fallujah,”“Borderline” and “Made This Way: Redefining Masculinity.” Vr competition at Venice runs through Sept. 8.
Vr is now luring topnotch talent. “Spheres,” an interactive journey inspired by the iconic “pale blue dot” image of planet Earth, is executive produced by Darren Aronofsky and is narrated by Jessica Chastain, Patti Smith and Millie Bobby Brown, while “Crow: The Legend,” an animated piece inspired by a Native American tale, is narrated by John Legend, Diego Luna and Oprah Winfrey, among others.
“We’re seeing that alongside the more experimental Vr experiences, there is a building trend towards experiences with...
Vr is now luring topnotch talent. “Spheres,” an interactive journey inspired by the iconic “pale blue dot” image of planet Earth, is executive produced by Darren Aronofsky and is narrated by Jessica Chastain, Patti Smith and Millie Bobby Brown, while “Crow: The Legend,” an animated piece inspired by a Native American tale, is narrated by John Legend, Diego Luna and Oprah Winfrey, among others.
“We’re seeing that alongside the more experimental Vr experiences, there is a building trend towards experiences with...
- 9/4/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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