Everything You Need To Know – Sundance New Frontier 2022

Mathieu G.

The oldest interactive (new media) festival is back, January 20-30 in Park City. With his “fully biodigital” selection, presented simultaneously on a virtual venue (The Spaceship – launched in 2021), and a free-to-access venue in Park City (The Craft), Sundance makes the best of the Covid-19 situation and confirms its intentions as a global hybrid event.

Sundance’s New Frontier Draws Art Lovers into Virtual World (voanews.com)

Inside Sundance’s New Frontier Spaceship, an Interactive XR Experience (moviemaker.com)

How to Socialize at Sundance 2022 from Your Living Room (IndieWire – link)

DIAGNOSIA VR Experience to Premiere at Sundance Film Festival (Broadwayworld – link)

Faye Formisano’s Sundance-Playing VR Project ‘They Dream in My Bones’ Is Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’ (Yahoo – link)

Your Guide to Navigating Sundance’s Bespoke Virtual Hub & New Frontier Experiences (Immerse – link)

Source Sundance Preview: New Frontiers (The Source – link)

Sundance Film Festival 2022: Five New Frontier Highlights (Cool Hunting – link)

Sundance Announces 2022 New Frontier Lineup, Taking Place as a ‘Biodigital’ Hybrid Event (Variety – link)

2022 Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier Section To Be Presented At VR Venue And New Park City Destination (Deadline – link)

2022 Sundance Film Festival’s ‘New Frontier’ Debuts Hybrid Virtual “Spaceship” and In-Person Experience (The Hype Magazine – link)

Sundance 2022 unveils plans for New Frontier programme (ScreenDaily – link)

Sundance New Frontier 2022 unveils full details of Online & In-Person venues and activities (XRMust – link)

@ Dabatase

New Frontier @ Sundance Film Festival 2022

@ Magazine

Infinity Experiences and Excurio Team Up to Accelerate the International Expansion of SPACE EXPLORERS: THE ISS EXPERIENCE

Infinity Experiences and Excurio are strengthening their partnership to accelerate the international rollout of SPACE EXPLORERS: THE ISS EXPERIENCE and create new opportunities for operators and exhibitors worldwide. Through the integration of the experience onto LBXR Pulse, Excurio’s free-roaming immersive

“OTO’S PLANET is an interactive work that reflects on the absurdity of our contemporary society” – Gwenael François, Julien Becker (Skill Lab)

If you haven’t heard of Luxembourg-based studio Skill Lab yet, memorize it. In addition to the world premiere of their experiment OTO’S PLANET at the Annecy Festival in Competition, Gwenael François and Julien Becker participated in the production of MAMIE

“This year we have received many XR impact works” – Yves Nougarède, Gala Frecon (Annecy Film Festival)

The sun was out for the return of a very physical Annecy festival, the most important worldwide meeting for animation professionals. The festival and its market, the MIFA, were fully booked for this week of celebration of animated works, be

“Making films for Vision Pro is a return to a true cinematic approach” – Frank-David Cohen, Sixtine Rose (Immersive Flashback)

Is immersive technology bringing film formats back into fashion? While all location-based experiences are on the rise and consolidating their place in the market, video seemed less attractive, between difficulties accessing stores and the stranglehold of real-time engines on productions.

Inside Venice Gap Financing 2023: GARDEN ALCHEMY (Tindrum production, The Animation Workshop)

A final article to wrap up XRMust’s overview on the Venice Gap-Financing 2023, the part of the Venice Production Bridge that, during the 80th Venice International Film Festival, will offer selected European and International projects the opportunity to close their

“You must be willing to take a leap of faith to commit to a virtual journey.” – Darren Emerson (IN PURSUIT OF REPETITIVE BEATS)

Darren Emerson wins IDFA's "Award for Immersive Non-Fiction" with his latest immersive experience, IN PURSUIT OF REPETITIVE BEATS.