Venice Immersive 2024 Reveals Lineup: 63 Projects from 25 Countries

29 July 2024 | Source
The Venice Immersive section of the 81st Venice International Film Festival, Italy, will feature 63 projects from 25 countries, including 26 in competition. The festival, running from August 28 to September 7, 2024, will be judged by an international jury led by Celine Daemen. The immersive section showcases XR works, including 360° videos, VR, and mixed reality.
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The Venice Immersive section for the 81st Venice International Film Festival has revealed its complete lineup, presenting a total of 63 projects from 25 countries. This year's festival will take place from August 28 to September 7, 2024, on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, near the Lido di Venezia. Launched in 2017, Venice Immersive represents the first competition and official selection for Extended Reality (XR) works in an A-list festival.

This year’s selection includes 26 projects in competition, comprising 19 world premieres and 7 international premieres, and 30 projects out of competition. The out-of-competition section is divided into "Best of Experiences," featuring 10 projects, and "Best of Worlds," with 20 projects created on the VRChat social platform. Additionally, there are 7 projects developed during the Biennale College Cinema – Immersive workshops.

The Venice Immersive section is entirely devoted to immersive arts and media, encompassing various XR expressions such as 360° videos, virtual and mixed reality, and XR works of any length, including installations, haptics, and virtual worlds. Accredited visitors will have access to all titles in the lineup, and special Venice Immersive accreditation is available for attendees.

The 2024 Venice Immersive Jury will be presided over by Celine Daemen from the Netherlands, a director known for her transdisciplinary art. The jury also includes Marion Burger from France, a production designer with extensive film experience, and Adriaan Lokman from the Netherlands, a creator of cross-media projects. This esteemed panel will award the Venice Immersive Grand Prize, the Special Jury Prize, and the Achievement Prize.

A brief history highlights the festival's early adoption of Virtual Reality, beginning with the development of a VR Theatre in 2016 and the launch of the first VR competition in 2017. Despite challenges posed by the pandemic, which led to the online accessibility of Venice VR Expanded in 2020 and 2021, the section returned in person in 2022 under the new name Venice Immersive.

Venice Immersive 2024 Selected Works

In Competition:

  1. "Mamie Lou" / Isabelle Andreani / France, Luxembourg / 25’ / virtual reality
  2. "Mammary Mountain" / Tara Baoth Mooney, Camille C. Baker, Maf'j Alvarez / UK, Ireland / 23’ / installation, haptic, virtual reality
  3. "Une Eau la Nuit (Bodies of Water)" / Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin, Caroline Laurin-Beaucage / Canada / 10’ / virtual reality
  4. "Uncanny Alley: A New Day" / Stephen Butchko, Rick Treweek / USA, South Africa / 75’ / world, virtual reality, immersive theatre
  5. "In the Realm of Ripley" / Soo Eung Chuck Chae, Eun Jung Chae / South Korea / 50’ / installation, virtual reality, interactive film
  6. "Free Ur Head" / Tung-Yen Chou / Taipei / 30’ / installation, virtual reality, live performance
  7. "Project: Lost Worlds" / FINS / USA / 60’ / world, virtual reality
  8. "The Art of Change" / Simone Fougnier, Vincent Rooijers / Italy, The Netherlands, USA / 10’ / virtual reality
  9. "Oto's Planet" / Gwenael François / Luxembourg, Canada, France / 28’ / virtual reality
  10. "Un Soir avec les Impressionnistes, Paris 1874" / Pierre Gable / France / 42’ / installation, virtual reality
  11. "Ceci est Mon Cœur" / Stéphane Hueber-Blies, Nicolas Blies / Luxembourg, Canada, France / 35’ / installation, haptic, projection
  12. "Pudica" / Keisuke Itoh / Japan / 15’ / installation, mixed reality
  13. "Address Unknown: Fukushima Now" / Arif Khan / Japan, USA, Taipei / 25’ / virtual reality
  14. "The Guardians of Jade Mountain" / Hayoun Kwon / France, Taipei / 18’ / installation, virtual reality
  15. "Ito Meikyu" / Boris Labbé / France, Luxembourg / 15’ / virtual reality
  16. "Strangeways" / Adam Lieber, Chris Bianchi / UK, South Africa, Malta / 30’ / world, virtual reality
  17. "Fragile Home" / Ondřej Moravec, Victoria Lopukhina / Czech Republic / 30’ / installation, mixed reality
  18. "Impulse: Playing with Reality" / Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla / UK, France / 35’ / installation, mixed reality
  19. "Žaisti Gyvenimą (Play Life)" / Žilvinas Naujokas, Vilius Petrauskas, Mantas Pronckus, Donatas Ulvydas, Algis Kriščiūnas, Darius Zickus / Lithuania / 26’ / virtual reality
  20. "Rencontres" / Mathieu Pradat / France, Taipei / 50’ / installation, virtual reality
  21. "A Simple Silence" / Craig Quintero / Taipei / 12’ / virtual reality
  22. "Project_Y: Working Title" / Yuzo Sugano, Shingo Yoshimura, Toshiki Sakamoto, Taro Hirai / Japan / 90’ / virtual reality
  23. "Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom" / Kenichi Suzuki / Japan, France, USA / 90’ / virtual reality
  24. "Symbiosis/\Dysbiosis: Sentience" / Tosca Terán, Brendan Lehman, Andrei Gravelle, Sven Steffens / Canada, Germany, Chile / 90’ / installation, virtual reality, live performance
  25. "Champ de Bataille" / François Vautier / France, Belgium, Luxembourg / 21’ / virtual reality
  26. "All I Know About Teacher Li" / Zhuzmo / USA / 20’ / virtual reality

Out of Competition:

Best of Experiences:

  1. "Turbulence: Jamais Vu" / Ben Joseph Andrews, Emma Roberts / Australia / 10’ / installation, virtual reality
  2. "What If…? - An Immersive Story" / Dave Bushore / USA / 50’ / mixed reality
  3. "40 Dias Sem o Sol (40 Days Without the Sun)" / Joao Furia / Brazil / 15’ / virtual reality
  4. "Nightmara: Episode 3" / Gianpaolo Gonzalez / USA / 14’ / virtual reality
  5. "Astra" / Eliza McNitt / France, USA / 60’ / mixed reality
  6. "Adventure" / Charlotte Mikkelsborg, Elliot Graves / UK / 25’ / virtual reality
  7. "Riven" / Rand Miller, Richard Wende, Hannah Gamiel, Eric Anderson, Tony Fryman / USA / 45’ / virtual reality
  8. "Museum Alive Immersive with David Attenborough" / Bhaumik Patel / UK / 10’ / mixed reality
  9. "Telos I" / Emil Dam Seidel, Dorotea Saykaly / Canada, Sweden, Denmark, UK / 23’ / installation
  10. "The 7th Guest VR" / Paul van der Meer / The Netherlands / virtual reality

Best of Worlds:

  1. "․⁄ Complication" / Ende
  2. "Chromatic Frequency" / Axinovium
  3. "Concrete - Pale Sands" / May ~ and jerk
  4. "Eccentric Rooms" / suzuki_i
  5. "Endless Residents Super Ultra Deluxe Edition" / Spencer Filson
  6. "Exoplanet Journey" / Niko
  7. "Finishing Touch - Art Studio ＆ Gallery" / Mixieǃ
  8. "Like a Canvas" / haruki_haru
  9. "Liminal Dreams˸ The Poolrooms" / ∗Lotus∗
  10. "Magic AI-Art˸ Dimensions" / Niko∗
  11. "Magnetize" / Juice… and DeltaNeverUsed
  12. "Mormoverse˸ Under the Pillow" / GeorgyMolodtsov
  13. "Overview Effect Experience" / THE SHUSHU
  14. "Phatta" / Sumeru
  15. "Polyrhythm" / SkyeSage
  16. "Sanctum" / Muzz, ju.no
  17. "Smew Brushǃ" / Smew
  18. "SNR Labs: Test Facility" / A://DDOS
  19. "Suku" / durk＠work
  20. "VRC Museum" / Ectique

Biennale College Cinema – Immersive:

  1. "Earths to Come" / Rose Bond / USA / 13’ / installation, virtual reality
  2. "Duchampiana" / Lilian Hess / France, Germany / 10’ / installation, virtual reality
  3. "Garden Alchemy" / Michelle Kranot, Uri Kranot / Denmark / 45’ / installation, virtual reality
  4. "Chung-Nan-Pan-Tao Wei-Chih-Mou-Chu (Somewhere Unknown in Indochina)" / Asio Chihsiung Liu, Feng Ting Tsou / Taipei, Belgium, Canada, Vietnam, Cambodia / 38’ / virtual reality
  5. "Below Deck" / Martina Mahlknecht, Martin Prinoth / Germany, Italy / 23’ / installation, virtual reality
  6. "The Gossips’ Chronicles" / Corinne Mazzoli / Italy / 30’ / installation, mixed reality
  7. "Echos of Ash Valley" / Shu Zhu / USA / 17’ / installation, virtual reality
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