What we're reading & watching
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Montreal’s Phi Centre takes central role in XR ecosystem. Hooray for Myriam Achard and the team there. They are doing amazing work.
Creative Futures: 40 provocations to reimagine the arts, documentary, and journalism.
The wonderful people at Field Of Vision have released Field Notes, a new online journal on nonfiction cinema.
"Virtual reality is entering its teenage years" - an interview with immersive storyteller Céline Tricart.
Michel Reilhac on how film fesivals are launching a joint VR platform.
We watched Fall film festivals from home. Here's how it went according to Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott.
What it was like to attend Burning Man in VR.
When this reality fails you, try escaping to a virtual one.
Where does independent documentary go from here? Cecilia Aldarondo and Robert Greene discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted their field, and what the future might hold.
Ouch. RBG and the empty triumph of liberal pop culture. Surprised we haven't seen more debate about this piece.
Facebook's virtual reality push is about data, not gaming.
No Proscenium's Kathryn Yu talks to Chris Barr from Knight Foundation about how performers are experimenting with remote performances and what is being learned about performance in the time of telepresence.
How do you take VR projects to audiences beyond the festival circuit? Take a look at this case study on touring Common Ground in the UK to get some ideas.
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Projects we're eyeballing
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Darkfield Radio's binaural audio performances blur the lines of reality.
If you couldn't make it to CIFF this year you can still bring a little bit of Maine to you by listening to Living Sounds: Maine Island. This is 24/7 live sound from 4 microphones and a hydrophone on Whitehead Light Station, an island off the coast of Maine.
The Line is a 15-20 minute interactive story about love and fear of change. It recently won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media and is available to purchase on the Oculus Store (for Quest).
Agence is a VR, Mobile and PC experience that places the fate of artificially intelligent creatures in your hands—will you maintain their peaceful existence, or throw them into a state of chaos?
IN PROTEST: Grassroots Stories from the Front Lines is a 360° film series chronicling the unsung heroes of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Asif Kapadia is making an XR piece about the first space dog, Laika, to be completed in 2021.
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Festivals and Events
- LFF Expanded is running as part of the BFI London Film Festival from October 7-18.
- Five festivals got together to produce Nightstream. This is the kind of collaboration-in-a-crisis that really give us hope. Online October 8 - 11.
- York Mediale starts October 20 and continues into the new year, showcasing a cacophony of experiential digital art conceived of and influenced by 2020.
- South Africa's Fak'ugesi Festival will be online from October 20 - November 20 so more of you can discover amazing African digital innovation.
- Raindance Immersive takes place online from October 28 - November 15
Submission Deadlines
- The international call is currently open for the Biennale College – Cinema Virtual Reality. Deadline October 26.
- SXSW will have an online component in 2021 You can submit PanelPicker proposals (deadline October 16) and films including for the Virtual Cinema (deadline October 28).
- Tribeca Film Festival will be taking place June 9-20 in their 20th anniversary year. Submissions are open till January 13 and include Tribeca Immersive.
- Sheffield Doc/Fest is open for submissions for their 2021 edition. Late deadline for the Arts Programme (formerly Alternate Realities) is March 1.
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Immerse is an initiative of MIT Open DocLab and The Fledgling Fund, and is fiscally sponsored by IFP. Many thanks to our other funders: JustFilms | Ford Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation.
Editorial Board:
Mark Atkin (Crossover Labs), Ruthie Doyle (Sundance Film Institute), Caspar Sonnen (IDFA DocLab), Julia Scott-Stevenson (i-Docs), Zeina Abi Assy
Header design by Hayrettin Gunc
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