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Selection complete for the works of Venice VR Expanded /

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Virtual, in Satellite Venues and at the Palazzo del Casinò (Lido)

37 projects from 21 Countries / 35 VRChat worlds

Michelle Kranot (President), Maria Grazia Mattei, Jonathan Yeo

are the members of the International Jury

 

The selection is complete for the Virtual Reality works of the 78th Venice International Film Festival (1 - 11 September 2021) of La Biennale di Venezia in the section titled Venice VR Expanded, which will be held on the following dates and venues:

  • 1 - 11 September, on site (Sala Amici, Palazzo del Casinò, Lido di Venezia)
  • 1 - 19 September, online and at Satellite Venues (14 venues, 10 countries)

 

The Venice VR Expanded, section of the 78th Venice International Film Festival, following the success of the 2020 edition, will again be held online, extending its duration from 1 - 19 September, 2021.

 

From 1 - 11 September, for the entire duration of the Venice Film Festival, the Venice VR Expanded Programme will be available on site for accredited festival guests, at the VR Gallery in the Palazzo del Casinò (Lido di Venezia), Sala Amici, upon reservation.

 

The Official Selection of Virtual Reality works in this edition of the Venice Film Festival may be viewed online thanks to our partner platforms, HTC’s Viveport and Facebook’s Oculus, using PCVR and Oculus Quest headsets.

 

The Venice VR virtual world, designed with the technical support of VRrOOm within VRChat, will be the Venice VR Expanded hub—a fantastical virtual version of Venice and of our usual in-real-life VR Island Lazzaretto Vecchio, available  to anyone with a VRChat account. Within our Venice VR virtual world, visitors can experience previews of the official selection and socialise with other visitors. Accredited guests will be invited to “Meet the Creator” sessions, opening and closing parties, and other performances and events. Within this virtual world, following the success of the 2020 virtual edition, Venice VR Expanded will feature a brand new section, the Venice VRChat Worlds Gallery, with a selection of 35 virtual worlds, celebrating the creativity of creators using VRChat as a platform to build their own fantasy worlds. Additionally, 5 special events, including live performances, will take place in 5 different VRChat virtual venues.

 

Venice VR Expanded will present 37 projects from 21 Countries and 35 VRChat worlds:

  • 23 projects in Competition
  • 1SpecialEvent – Out of Competition
  • 12 projects Out of Competition – Best Of (selection of the finest VR work launched since the 2020 Edition)
  • 1 project developed and financed during the fifth edition of the Biennale College Cinema – VR
  • 35 selected worlds in VRChat in VRChat Worlds Gallery with 5 Special Events 

 

The Venice International Film Festival was one of the first film festivals in the world to demonstrate interest in Virtual Reality. The development of a VR Theater in 2016 sparked enormous interest among the participants of the Venice Production Bridge. Starting in 2017, La Biennale di Venezia launched the first competition for works in Virtual Reality in an A-list festival, which was held for three editions, through 2019, in a venue on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio on the Lido, judged by an International Jury. The online accessibility of Venice VR Expanded, born in the 2020 edition, represents a new commitment and a new challenge to guarantee that the Venice International Film Festival will continue to offer the experience of the rapidly evolving art form that is Virtual Reality.

 

The accredited viewers of the Venice Film Festival will have access to all the titles of the virtual programme. Furthermore, a special VR Accreditation will be issued to interested visitors who are not accredited for the Festival.

 

The members of the International Jury of Venice VR Expanded are:

 

  • Michelle Kranot, President
  • Maria Grazia Mattei
  • Jonathan Yeo

The Venice VR Expanded Jury will award the following prizes: Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Work, Best VR Experience and Best VR Story.

 

 

VENICE VR EXPANDED

 

In Competition

 

ENGELEN VAN AMSTERDAM (ANGELS IN AMSTERDAM)

by ANNA ABRAHAMS, AVINASH CHANGA

Netherlands / 30’

 

END OF NIGHT

by DAVID ADLER

Denmark, France / 49’

 

LA PLAGE DE SABLE ÉTOILÉ (THE STARRY SAND BEACH)

by NINA BARBIER, HSIN-CHIEN HUANG

France / 15’

 

CAVES

by ISABEL GARCIA CARLOS

Switzerland / 19’

 

BEDLAM

by MAT COLLISHAW

France, UK, Taiwan / 45’

 

GENESIS

by JOERG COURTIAL

Germany / 13’

 

SPIRIT OF PLACE

by DALE DEACON

South Africa, Denmark / 30’

 

TEARLESS

by KIM GINA

South Korea, USA / 12’

 

LUN HUI (SAMSARA) COMPLETE PART 1 AND 2 VERSION

by HSIN-CHIEN HUANG

Taiwan / 21’

 

CLAP

by KEISUKE ITOH

Japan / 13’

 

LE BAL DE PARIS DE BLANCA LI

by BLANCA LI

France, Germany, Luxembourg / 35’

 

BLISS IN THE EAR OF A STORM

by ADAM LIEBER, HAL SORTA

UK, South Africa, USA/ 20’

 

IL DUBBIO – EPISODE 2

by MATTEO LONARDI, JAVIER LAJARA, JAVIER MARTINEZ

Spain, Italy / 7’

 

ANANDALA

by KEVIN MACK

USA / 15’

 

GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY

by BARRY GENE MURPHY, MAY ABDALLA

UK, France / 25’

 

MONTEGELATO

by DAVIDE RAPP

Italy / 28’

 

THE SEVERANCE THEORY: WELCOME TO RESPITE

by LYNDSIE SCOGGIN

USA / 60’

 

CONTAINER

by MEGHNA SINGH

South Africa / 16’

 

BING MEI GUEI (THE SICK ROSE)

by TANG ZHI-ZHONG,  HUANG YUN-HSIEN

Taiwan / 17’

 

MYRIAD.WHERE WE CONNECT. |VR EXPERIENCE

by LENA THIELE, SEBASTIAN BAURMANN, DIRK HOFFMANN

Germany / 31’

 

THE LAST WORKER

by JÖRG TITTEL

UK / 30’

 

EXPLORING HOME

by SARA LISA VOGL

Germany / 16’

 

YI YUAN (THE FINAL WISH)

by WANG HAIPEI, WANG SHANSHAN

China / 20’

 

Special Event – Out of Competition

 

IN THE MIST

by CHOU TUNG-YEN

Taiwan / 15’

 

 

Best of VR Expanded – Out of Competition

(selection of the best VR works launched since the 2020 edition)

 

MASKMAKER

by BALTHAZAR AUXIETRE

France / 300’

 

MIND VR EXPLORATION

by DENG ZUYUN, YONG CAO

China / 15’

 

KUSUNDA

by FELIX GAEDTKE, GAYATRI PARAMESWARAN

Germany, Nepal, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan / 23’

 

MICRO MONSTERS WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

by ELLIOT GRAVES

UK, USA / 5’

 

MARE

by RUI GUERREIRO

Japan, Sweden / 180’

 

SPACE EXPLORERS: THE ISS EXPERIENCE – EPISODES 1-2

by FÉLIX LAJEUNESSE, PAUL RAPHAËL

Canada, USA / 55’

 

SAM & MAX: THIS TIME IT’S VIRTUAL!

by MICHAEL LEVINE

USA / 300’

 

MYST

by RAND MILLER, HANNAH GAMIEL, ERIC ANDERSON

USA / 120’

 

KNOT: A TRILOGY

by GLEN NEATH, DAVID ROSENBERG

UK / 65’

 

WRAITH: THE OBLIVION - AFTERLIFE

by ERIK ODELDAHL

Sweden / 480’

 

JURASSIC WORLD AFTERMATH

by RICHARD SNOWDON

UK, Australia, USA / 180’

 

REEDUCATED

by SAM WOLSON, BEN MAUK, NICHOLAS RUBIN, MATT HUYNH

USA, Kazakhstan / 20’

 

 

Biennale College Cinema – VR – Out of Competition

 

LAVRYNTHOS

by AMIR ADMONI e FABITO RYCHTER, producer: FABITO RYCHTER

Brazil, Peru / 16’

produced with the Biennale College Cinema VR grant

 

 

VRChat Worlds Gallery

 

 

A MAZE TRAIN STATION

 

AQUARIUS

 

ATLANTIS˸ SUPERRARE EXHIBITION

 

CLUB GUMBALL

 

CRAFTY CLIMBERS

 

CRYPT OF THE SPIRITS

 

CRYSTAL DUNES

 

CYCLE OF LIFE

 

DEEP BLUE NIGHT

 

EDEN

 

FFCR

 

FRANK

 

GUMBALL LOUNGE

 

KARAOKE CENTRA

 

LAST HOPE WATCH TOWER

 

LOST IT

 

MIRЯIM

 

MONORAIL COASTER

 

MONORAIL COASTER LITE

 

MOSCOW TRIP 1952

 

MUSEUM-OF-VRPAINTING

 

NOIR - CALL OF THE VOID (SPOOKALITY RELEASETECH DEMO)

 

RAAWRS' ELNO-THEL FOREST

 

SAPIENSTRUCT

 

SUBMERGE 2

 

SURREAL HAZARD

 

SXSW XR 2021

 

THE DEVOURING

 

THE EDGE

 

THE FORT

 

THE HALLWYL MUSEUM

 

THE JUNKYARDǃ

 

TREEHOUSE IN THE SHADE

 

UNCANNY ALLEY

 

WORLD.EXECUTE (ME)

 

VRChat Worlds Gallery – Special Events

 

BRAINDANCE

 

JEAN MICHEL JARRE CONCERT

 

M.A.S.S.

 

MYCELIA

 

SHELTER

 

 

 

Venice VR Expanded Satellite Programme /

Accessible at prestigious cultural institutions

in 14 cities from 10 countries around the world

 

The works of Venice VR Expanded (1 – 19 September 2021) will also be available for viewing in the physical spaces set up at the following prestigious cultural institutions around the world:

 

  • Centre PHI, Montréal, Canada
  • Sandman Studios - Sandbox Immersive Festival, Beijing and Shanghai, China
  • MC2: Grenoble, Grenoble, France
  • Centquatre-Paris, Paris, France
  • Invr.Space, Berlin, Germany
  • Meet Digital CommunicationMEET Digital Culture Center, Milan, Italy
  • Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini -Laboratorio Aperto di Modena, Modena, Italy
  • Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy
  • M9 - Museum of the 20th Century, Venice Mestre, Italy
  • Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Less Media Group – Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
  • Espronceda - Institute of Art & Culture, Barcelona, Spain
  • Virgile Film Yapim Ticaret Limited Şirketi – Iksv Salon and Kolektif House (Levent and Maslak), Istanbul, Turkey
  • Portland Art Museum & Northwest Film Center – Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA

 

Thanks to these institutions, which form the Venice VR Expanded Satellite Programme, audiences who do not own the VR equipment necessary to view the works online, may enjoy the experience of the projects of Venice VR Expanded on site. Audiences can access the Venice VR Expanded programme by making a reservation directly with each venue.

 

Each of these institutions, from 1 - 19 September, will create a space open to the public equipped with VR headsets, in which spectators may view the projects in competition at Venice VR Expanded, the projects Out of Competition – Best of VR Expanded (including our VR Chat Worlds Gallery, a selection of 35 worlds and 5 special events in VR Chat) and the project developed during the fifth edition of Biennale College Cinema – VR, plus a Special Event – Out of Competition (only ON SITE and ON SATELLITE, not ONLINE).

 

The Virtual Reality works in this edition of the Venice Film Festival may all be viewed online, except for the special event, out of competition, in partnership with HTC’s VIVEPORT and Facebook’s Oculus, with the support of VRChat and VRrOOm.


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