Venice Film Festival Unveils Immersive XR Lineup
The Venice International Film Festival 2024 lineup is slowly coming into view, with the Venice Immersive XR – Extended Reality section now revealed.
The festival, which will take place from August 28 through September 7, includes 360° videos, virtual and mixed reality and XR works of any length for the Venice Immersive program. Launched in 2017, the section represents one of the first competitions for works in Extended Reality in an A-list festival. The 81st annual festival’s Venice Immersive section is presented with support from VRChat.
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The Venice Immersive program included 63 projects from 25 countries, with 26 of those projects being in competition. The festival also boasts seven 7 projects developed during the Biennale College Cinema – Immersive offering.
A trio prizes will be awarded to Venice Immersive projects from the jury. The prizes are: the Venice Immersive Grand Prize, the Venice Immersive Special Jury Prize, and Venice Immersive Achievement Prize.
The international Venice Immersive jury is preceded over by president Celine Daemen, whose own VR opera “Eurydice, a descent into infinity” debuted at the Venice Immersive selection in 2022. Her 2023 VR opera “Songs for a Passerby” won the Venice Immersive Grand Prize. “Divines” and “Gagarine” production designer Marion Burger is on the jury; her VR experience “Emperor” won the 2023 Venice Immersive achievement prize and marked her directorial debut. Adriaan Lokman also serves on the jury after his project “Flow” was awarded the Special Immersive Jury prize in 2023.
The Venice Immersive Market will additionally take place during the festival as part of the Venice Production Bridge on the Venice Immersive Island. Activities include the presentation of immersive projects of both the Venice Gap-Financing Market and the Biennale College Cinema Immersive, panels, an Exhibition Area, and more. The Venice Immersive Market will be the place where institutions, professionals, production, post-production and distribution companies, public and private funds linked to the Immersive world will convene.
Check out the full lineup below.
In Competition
MAMIE LOU
by ISABELLE ANDREANI
France, Luxembourg / 25’ / virtual reality
MAMMARY MOUNTAIN
by TARA BAOTH MOONEY, CAMILLE C. BAKER, MAF’J ALVAREZ
UK, Ireland / 23’ / installation, haptic, virtual reality
UNE EAU LA NUIT (BODIES OF WATER)
by CHéLANIE BEAUDIN-QUINTIN, CAROLINE LAURIN-BEAUCAGE
Canada / 10’ / virtual reality
UNCANNY ALLEY: A NEW DAY
by STEPHEN BUTCHKO, RICK TREWEEK
USA, South Africa / 75’ / world, virtual reality, immersive theatre
IN THE REALM OF RIPLEY
by SOO EUNG CHUCK CHAE, EUN JUNG CHAE
South Korea / 50’ / installation, virtual reality, interactive film
FREE UR HEAD
by TUNG-YEN CHOU
Taipei / 30’ / installation, virtual reality, live performance
PROJECT: LOST WORLDS
by FINS
USA / 60’ / world, virtual reality
THE ART OF CHANGE
by SIMONE FOUGNIER, VINCENT ROOIJERS
Italy, The Netherlands, USA / 10’ / virtual reality
OTO’S PLANET
by GWENAEL FRAN?OIS
Luxembourg, Canada, France / 28’ / virtual reality
UN SOIR AVEC LES IMPRESSIONNISTES, PARIS 1874
by PIERRE GABLE
France / 42’ / installation, virtual reality
CECI EST MON C?UR
by STéPHANE HUEBER-BLIES, NICOLAS BLIES
Luxembourg, Canada, France / 35’ / installation, haptic, projection
PUDICA
by KEISUKE ITOH
Japan / 15’ / installation, mixed reality
ADDRESS UNKNOWN: FUKUSHIMA NOW
by ARIF KHAN
Japan, USA, Taipei / 25’ / virtual reality
THE GUARDIANS OF JADE MOUNTAIN
by HAYOUN KWON
France, Taipei / 18’ / installation, virtual reality
ITO MEIKYU
by BORIS LABBé
France, Luxembourg / 15’ / virtual reality
STRANGEWAYS
by ADAM LIEBER, CHRIS BIANCHI
UK, South Africa, Malta / 30’ / world, virtual reality
FRAGILE HOME
by OND?EJ MORAVEC, VICTORIA LOPUKHINA
Czech Republic / 30’ / installation, mixed reality
IMPULSE: PLAYING WITH REALITY
by BARRY GENE MURPHY, MAY ABDALLA
UK, France / 35’ / installation, mixed reality
?AISTI GYVENIM? (PLAY LIFE)
by ZILVINAS NAUJOKAS, VILIUS PETRAUSKAS, MANTAS PRONCKUS, DONATAS ULVYDAS, ALGIS KRISCIUNAS, DARIUS ZICKUS
Lithuania / 26’ / virtual reality
RENCONTRES
by MATHIEU PRADAT
France, Taipei / 50’ / installation, virtual reality
A SIMPLE SILENCE
by CRAIG QUINTERO
Taipei / 12’ / virtual reality
PROJECT_Y: WORKING TITLE
by YUZO SUGANO, SHINGO YOSHIMURA, TOSHIKI SAKAMOTO, TARO HIRAI
Japan / 90’ / virtual reality
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: SILVER PHANTOM
by KENICHI SUZUKI
Japan, France, USA / 90’ / virtual reality
SYMBIOSIS/\DYSBIOSIS: SENTIENCE
by TOSCA TERáN, BRENDAN LEHMAN, ANDREI GRAVELLE, SVEN STEFFENS
Canada, Germany, Chile / 90’ / installation, virtual reality, live performance
CHAMP DE BATAILLE
by FRAN?OIS VAUTIER
France, Belgium, Luxembourg / 21’ / virtual reality
ALL I KNOW ABOUT TEACHER LI
by ZHUZMO
USA / 20’ / virtual reality
Out of Competition
(international selection of the best works that have been released or premiered elsewhere since the last edition of the Venice International Film Festival)
Best of Experiences
TURBULENCE: JAMAIS VU
by BEN JOSEPH ANDREWS, EMMA ROBERTS
Australia / 10’ / installation, virtual reality
WHAT IF…? – AN IMMERSIVE STORY
by DAVE BUSHORE
USA / 50’ / mixed reality
40 DIAS SEM O SOL (40 DAYS WITHOUT THE SUN)
by JOAO FURIA
Brazil / 15’ / virtual reality
NIGHTMARA: EPISODE 3
by GIANPAOLO GONZALEZ
USA / 14’ / virtual reality
ASTRA
by ELIZA MCNITT
France, USA / 60’ / mixed reality
ADVENTURE
by CHARLOTTE MIKKELBORG, ELLIOT GRAVES
UK / 25’ / virtual reality
RIVEN
by RAND MILLER, RICHARD WENDE, HANNAH GAMIEL, ERIC ANDERSON, TONY FRYMAN
USA / 45’ / virtual reality
MUSEUM ALIVE IMMERSIVE WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
by BHAUMIK PATEL
UK / 10’/ mixed reality
TELOS I
by EMIL DAM SEIDEL, DOROTEA SAYKALY
Canada, Sweden, Denmark, UK / 23’/ installation
THE 7TH GUEST VR
by PAUL VAN DER MEER
The Netherlands / virtual reality
Best of Worlds
?? COMPLICATION by Ende
CHROMATIC FREQUENCY by Axinovium
CONCRETE – PALE SANDS by May ~ and jerk
ECCENTIC ROOMS by suzuki_i
ENDLESS RESIDENTS SUPER ULTRA DELUXE EDITION by Spencer Filson
EXOPLANET JOURNEY by Niko
FINISHING TOUCH – ART STUDIO ＆ GALLERY by Mixie?
LIKE A CANVAS by haruki_haru
LIMINAL DREAMS? THE POOLROOMS by ?Lotus?
MAGIC AI-ART? DIMENSIONS by Niko?
MAGNETIZE by Juice…
MORMOVERSE? UNDER THE PILLOW by GeorgyMolodtsov
OVERVIEW EFFECT EXPERIENCE by THE SHUSHU
PHATTA by Sumeru
POLYRHYTHM by SkyeSage
SANCTUM by Muzz, ju.no
SMEW BRUSH? by Smew
SNR Labs: Test Facility by A://DDOS
SUKU by durk＠work
VRC MUSEUM by Ectique
Biennale College Cinema – Immersive – Out of Competition
EARTHS TO COME
by ROSE BOND producer: MELANIE COOMBS
USA / 13’ / virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema Immersive, 8th edition (2023/2024)
DUCHAMPIANA
by LILIAN HESS producer: SARAH ARNAUD, KATHRIN BRUNNER, OLIVER CZESLICK
France, Germany / 10’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 5th edition (2020/2021)
GARDEN ALCHEMY
by MICHELLE KRANOT, URI KRANOT producer: URI KRANOT, PETER FISHER, SIMON LAJBOSCHITZ
Denmark / 45’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 7th edition (2022/2023)
CHUNG-NAN-PAN-TAO WEI-CHIH-MOU-CHU (SOMEWHERE UNKNOWN IN INDOCHINA)
by ASIO CHIHSIUNG LIU, FENG TING TSOU producer: FENG TING TSOU, ASIO CHIHSIUNG LIU
Taipei, Belgium, Canada, Vietnam, Cambodia / 38’ / virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 6th edition (2021/2022)
BELOW DECK
by MARTINA MAHLKNECHT, MARTIN PRINOTH producer: MARTINA MAHLKNECHT, MARTIN PRINOTH
Germany, Italy / 23’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 7th edition (2022/2023)
THE GOSSIPS’ CHRONICLES
by CORINNE MAZZOLI producer: MARTA BIANCHI
Italy / 30’/ installation, mixed reality
Produced with the grant from Biennale College Cinema Immersive, 8th edition (2023/2024)
ECHOS OF ASH VALLEY
by SHU ZHU producer: SULTAN PIRZHAN, JONATHAN WARNER, ZEMO ZHENG
USA / 17’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema Immersive, 8th edition (2023/2024)
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