The Ubik performance art space at Worm in Rotterdam is the venue to four VR works at International Film Festival Rotterdam, two of which have been created by novices to the medium.
Featured in the festival’s Art Directions program, which aims to unite art and cinema, “To Miss the Ending” from U.K. duo Anna West and David Callanan explores a future that is immediately relatable to audiences living in a pandemic-struck world.
Originally conceived as a theater project five years ago, the experience takes users into a virtual world where five characters have escaped climate change, political chaos, disease and famine by uploading themselves.
In this Minecraft-style universe they start to build their own universe block-by-block, based on their existing memories – but when the code starts to rot memories become intertwined before slowly disintegrating.
“We wanted to ask the questions: ‘If you remove yourself from reality what makes you yourself?...
Featured in the festival’s Art Directions program, which aims to unite art and cinema, “To Miss the Ending” from U.K. duo Anna West and David Callanan explores a future that is immediately relatable to audiences living in a pandemic-struck world.
Originally conceived as a theater project five years ago, the experience takes users into a virtual world where five characters have escaped climate change, political chaos, disease and famine by uploading themselves.
In this Minecraft-style universe they start to build their own universe block-by-block, based on their existing memories – but when the code starts to rot memories become intertwined before slowly disintegrating.
“We wanted to ask the questions: ‘If you remove yourself from reality what makes you yourself?...
- 6/1/2021
- by Ann-Marie Corvin
- Variety Film + TV
Thomas Vinterberg’s film “Another Round,” starring Mads Mikkelsen, has taken home the top prize at this year’s BFI London Film Festival.
“Another Round” won the Audience Award for best film, while “The Painter and the Thief,” directed by Benjamin Ree won best documentary; Tommy Gillard’s “Shuttlecock” was the best short film and “To Miss the Ending,” directed by Anna West and David Callanan, was awarded best Xr/immersive art.
“Another Round” tells the story of Martin, played by Mikkelsen, a tutor, husband and father who was once brilliant but becomes only a shell of his former self.
“Thank you to the audience at the London Film Festival for bringing this award to us. We are very proud to receive this from a British audience; it’s a great honour. We are so sad that we can’t be there,” Vinterberg said of his award.
First-time feature director...
“Another Round” won the Audience Award for best film, while “The Painter and the Thief,” directed by Benjamin Ree won best documentary; Tommy Gillard’s “Shuttlecock” was the best short film and “To Miss the Ending,” directed by Anna West and David Callanan, was awarded best Xr/immersive art.
“Another Round” tells the story of Martin, played by Mikkelsen, a tutor, husband and father who was once brilliant but becomes only a shell of his former self.
“Thank you to the audience at the London Film Festival for bringing this award to us. We are very proud to receive this from a British audience; it’s a great honour. We are so sad that we can’t be there,” Vinterberg said of his award.
First-time feature director...
- 10/18/2020
- by Ellise Shafer
- Variety Film + TV
Brady won the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen bursary in association with the BFI.
Wildfire director Cathy Brady has been awarded the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen filmmaker bursary award in association with the BFI.
The award was presented to Brady at a virtual ceremony to mark the closing night of the 2020 BFI London FIlm Festival (Lff) on Sunday, October 18.
Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round won the audience award for best film.
The annual bursary is presented to first- or second-time UK writer, director, or writer-director. Wildfire, which was selected for last month’s online Toronto International FIlm Festival, stars Nora-Jane Noone and the late Nika McGuigan,...
Wildfire director Cathy Brady has been awarded the £50,000 Iwc Schaffhausen filmmaker bursary award in association with the BFI.
The award was presented to Brady at a virtual ceremony to mark the closing night of the 2020 BFI London FIlm Festival (Lff) on Sunday, October 18.
Thomas Vinterberg’s Another Round won the audience award for best film.
The annual bursary is presented to first- or second-time UK writer, director, or writer-director. Wildfire, which was selected for last month’s online Toronto International FIlm Festival, stars Nora-Jane Noone and the late Nika McGuigan,...
- 10/18/2020
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
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