Editorial⎜IDFA Doclab 2025: OF(F) the Internet

Karen Cirillo

At IDFA Doclab, you can be sure of two things: 1) the ever evolving and creative programming means you never can be sure what you will experience, and 2) whatever it is, you will be surrounded by thought-provoking work, people and conversations. DocLab is always a great way to close out the year – with […]

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IDFA Festival 2025 – “Off the Internet”

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“AR to provide context for understanding the natural environment” – Dane Christensen (KVÖLDVAKA)

Kvöldvaka is a fascinating augmented reality app for iOS that brings folklore and magic to life and helps you reconnect with nature. If you’ve ever watched lightning cross the sky outside your window, or walked through a field of flowers

“It is very important for us to open a dialogue with the spectator, even after the experience” – Ondřej Moravec (TMÁNÍ – DARKENING)

This is one of the most sensitive experiences of Venice Immersive 2022. TMÁNÍ (DARKENING) takes viewers on a journey to better understand the daily life of a person suffering from depression, based on the personal feelings of director Ondřej Moravec.

[Case Study] Interview with Gina Kim on BLOODLESS and TEARLESS

For her work BLOODLESS, Gina Kim received the Best VR Story Award from the Venice Film Festival in 2017. TEARLESS, the second installment of her trilogy on US military comfort women. I had the chance to share an in-depth conversation

FreeRoaming #01 – HTC VIVE and the rise of cultural LBE: XR as a public reception infrastructure

The appetite for major cultural experiences has always been a vertical business for growing XR. From the outset, HTC VIVE has been involved in this sector, both with studios (including, historically, Excurio) and now with the growing number of distribution

”Looking forward to the day that we don’t name the medium anymore and just talk about the content” – Katayoun Dibamehr (FNC Explore)

Born in Iran, Katayoun Dibamenhr has been programming new media for the FNC eXPlore section at the Festival du nouveau cinéma.

“Coming from traditional animation, I had to learn a new creative vocabulary” – Sunghwan Lee (IHYANGJEONG: CARVING WITH MEMORIES)

South Korean XR production company GiiÖii and Studio Shelter present at SXSW 2022 their latest project, IHYANGJEONG: CARVING WITH MEMORIES. A unique take on exploring our heritage through the story of a 300-year-old old house that descended from Sunghwan Lee’s