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)

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Villa Formose / DEEP ECOLOGY: a generative immersive map to explore the link between technology and ecology

XRMust is at the Kaohsiung Film Festival this year, covering the event and in particular its XR Dreamland section, at the invitation of the French Office in Taipei. It’s also an opportunity to take a look back at the teams

“To take the tools that exist today and combine them with the desire to tell stories” – Shari Frilot (Sundance New Frontier)

With the Sundance Film Festival just around the corner, we spoke to New Frontier curator Shari Frilot to find out more about the lineup and the challenges of working on a digital edition for the second year in a row.

“The maturity of the XR creation is felt in its diversity of proposals, and the interest of cultural venues worldwide” – Elie Levasseur (NewImages)

The NewImages festival returns to Paris for a 2022 edition from June 8 to 12, with a real B2B focus. Between the Industry Days and the various co-production or broadcasting markets offered, Elie Levasseur continues to consolidate the Parisian event

Press release: XRMust.com as your primary source of information for narrative and immersive storytelling

It’s a story of virtual encounters. It’s also a project we built around the idea that the XR creative industry needed an online source of information regarding all VR, AR, MR projects and creators. We are just getting started, and

“There is a sense of real community on our platform” – Lisa Maria Egger (Arrival.Space)

The metaverse is not dead (nor is VR, for that matter). Proof if it were needed that virtual worlds exist and are gaining momentum after two years of global ‘buzz’ that did little for the industry’s development. Despite some pessimistic

“Even brands have to rethink their narrative in three dimensions” – Cathy Hackl (Futures Intelligence Group)

If you are interested in virtual reality, its hardware and narrative developments, you should already follow Cathy Hackl on social networks (including Twitter). As a specialized consultant, Cathy has worked with some of the biggest companies in the sector –