“If you want to create empathy, it doesn’t matter what kind of medium, there’s craft in telling the story” – Steye Hallema (ANCESTORS)

Karen Cirillo

ANCESTORS is a unique participatory journey six generations into the future, exploring how today’s choices shape tomorrow’s world. In a large-group experience, the piece uses AI and guides you by your smartphone to connect with others around you. Directed by Steye Hallema (THE IMAGINARY FRIEND) for the Smartphone Orchestra, it premiered at IDFA 2024 and […]

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Decoding XR: PAPER BIRDS, German Heller

With a festival tour beginning in 2020 (and ongoing), the two parts of PAPER BIRDS have been available on the Oculus store since early July. On this occasion, let’s go back to the production of this animated film at the

“Our focus on understanding XR distribution issues is essential for us” – Ellen Kuo (NewImages Festival)

The French-based and international XR event is coming soon! Recognized for the strength of its professional market within the immersive cultural and creative industry, NewImages Festival team has a few new faces but stays true to its strategy and vision,

Television: 5 series that bet on virtual and augmented reality

The numerous immersive works that flourish every year prove that virtual reality has largely integrated the art world. The 7th art is not left behind, as shown by the prestigious film festivals that offer virtual reality content (Sundance, the Venice

“Our festival must be an international laboratory for immersive creation” – Michael Swierczynski (NewImages Festival)

Less than a year separates the two editions 2020 and 2021 of NewImages Festival, the Paris-based event of digital creation and virtual worlds produced by the Forum des images since 2018. After a shifted edition last September, the festival team

“We are now thinking about the philosophy behind VR and the stories we want to tell with it” – Uri Kranot (WE ARE AT HOME)

After its success at the Tribeca Film Festival and NewImages in Paris, WE ARE AT HOME, by filmmakers Michelle and Uri Kranot, entered the Inter:Active section of CPH:DOX 2022, which recently ended. An in-depth look at this work for those

Ride FX: from Omaha Beach to M. C. Escher, the immersive workshop in Brittany

Originally, Ride FX was supposed to produce films for amusement parks—hence the name, inspired by Futuroscope-style rides. Covid struck in the year the company was founded, major contracts fell through, and the studio had to reinvent itself at lightning speed.