Entirely dedicated to immersive arts and media and consists of all forms of inventive XR expression, Venice Immersive continues to be the most important annual exhibition of immersive arts and media.
The Venice Immersive part of the 81st Venice International Film Festival, which shall be held with the assist of VRChat, will current 63 initiatives from 25 international locations that embrace all forms of inventive XR expression: 360° movies, digital and combined actuality and XR works of any size, together with installations, haptics and digital worlds.
The Venice International Film Festival was one of many first movie festivals on the earth to point out an curiosity in Virtual Reality, and the XR part of the pageant has developed because it was launched. The official program for 2024 will happen on the Venice Immersive Island (island of Lazzaretto Vecchio), a brief distance from the Lido di Venezia, on the next dates:
- twenty seventh August (afternoon): press preview
- twenty eighth August: open solely to Press, Industry and Venice Immersive accreditations
- twenty ninth August – seventh September: open to all accredited guests
Entirely dedicated to immersive arts and media and consists of all forms of inventive XR expression, the VR part of the pageant sparked monumental curiosity among the many members of the Venice Production Bridge when the VR Theatre was launched, in 2016. Starting in 2017, La Biennale di Venezia launched the first competitors for works in Virtual Reality in an A-list pageant, which was held for 3 editions, by means of 2019, on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio on the Lido, judged by an International Jury.
The on-line accessibility of Venice VR Expanded over two editions (2020 and 2021) represented a brand new dedication and a brand new problem to ensure that the Venice International Film Festival would proceed to supply the expertise of this new artwork kind, even in instances of required social distancing. In 2022 the part, renamed Venice Immersive, returned in particular person to the island. Since the very first years, the part has been acknowledged as a novel occasion within the area and probably the most vital annual exhibition of immersive arts and media.
Venice Immersive will current 63 initiatives from 25 international locations:
- 26 initiatives in Competition, representing a number of 19 world premieres and seven worldwide premieres of the world’s finest immersive works
- 30 initiatives Out of Competition, a global number of the most effective works which have been launched or premiered elsewhere for the reason that final version of the Venice International Film Festival; this part is split into:
o Best of Experiences, 10 initiatives
o Best of Worlds, 20 initiatives, created by impartial artists from everywhere in the world on the VRChat social platform, an ecosystem of digital worlds introduced in guided excursions
- 7 initiatives developed through the Biennale College Cinema – Immersive: 1 challenge produced because of the grant from this 12 months’s eighth version, 6 initiatives developed throughout the worldwide workshop of the eighth, seventh, sixth and fifth editions
The 2024 Venice Immersive Jury will award the next prizes:
- Venice Immersive Grand Prize
- Venice Immersive Special Jury Prize
- Venice Immersive Achievement Prize
Accredited guests to the Venice Film Festival can have entry to all of the titles within the line-up. There can also be a devoted Venice Immersive Accreditation reserved to individuals over 18 years of age that grants entry to the initiatives of the part and is on the market in three codecs:
- 2-DAYS Venice Immersive Accreditation (€ 40): legitimate for two days
- 5-DAYS Venice Immersive Accreditation (€ 60): legitimate for five days
- FULL Venice Immersive Accreditation (€ 100): legitimate from twenty eighth August to seventh September
Registrations for Venice Immersive Accreditation are open on the festival’s website.
Venice Immersive Market
The members of the worldwide Jury of Venice Immersive are:
- Celine Daemen – president: (The Netherlands) born in 1995, she is a director of transdisciplinary artwork. Her work develops on the interface of theatre, music, visible arts and digital media. She creates immersive experiences that invite the viewers on a journey inwards and take them to a spot the place private associations come up in response to common philosophical questions. Celine is the founding father of Studio Nergens. In 2022 her VR opera Eurydice, a descent into infinity premiered within the Venice Immersive choice in competitors. After that, it acquired a number of awards throughout its worldwide tour. Her newest VR opera Songs for a Passerby premiered final 12 months on the Mostra. It received the Venice Immersive Grand Prize and has since been touring prestigious festivals and cultural venues world wide.
- Marion Burger: (France) born in 1987, she is a manufacturing designer who has labored on many function movies, together with Divines by Houda Benyamina, that received the Caméra d’or at Cannes Film pageant in 2016, Gagarine by Jérémy Trouilh and Fanny Liatard, in Cannes official choice in 2020, and extra not too long ago Mother and Son by Léonor Serraille, additionally in Cannes in 2022 version. As a former graduate of the Duperré design faculty, she has at all times been attracted by the transversality of inventive media. Emperor, an empathic VR expertise co-created with Ilan J. Cohen, that received Venice Immersive achievement prize final 12 months, marked her directorial debut.
- Adriaan Lokman: (The Netherlands) was born in 1960, he’s creator of time primarily based, linear, interactive and cross-media initiatives. After graduating on the Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam in illustration and audio-visual design, he labored in Rotterdam, the place he ran his manufacturing studio for animation, net design and occasion ideas. In 2002 his movie Barcode was awarded the Grand Prix d’Annecy. In final version of the Mostra Flow was awarded the Special Immersive Jury prize. In his quick movies, he investigated the boundaries between abstraction and actuality, with the continued want to contain the viewer.
Attendees to the pageant even have a chance to go to the third version of the Venice Immersive Market (twenty ninth August – third September), part of the Venice Production Bridge, that may happen on the Venice Immersive Island (Lazzaretto Vecchio).
The Venice Immersive Market is gathering all of the Venice Production Bridge Immersive actions through the Venice International Film Festival. These actions embrace: the presentation of immersive initiatives of each the Venice Gap-Financing Market and the Biennale College Cinema Immersive by means of 1-to-1 conferences; panels and networking occasions devoted to immersive subjects; an Exhibition Area for Institutions, private and non-private funds, the producers, the VR manufacturing, distribution and gross sales corporations, private and non-private funds supporting VR/XR/AR, VFX and post-production corporations which can be related to Immersive content material.
The Venice Immersive Island may even host an array of social occasions, together with Venice Production Bridge Panels and Cocktails. It may even function worldwide cubicles, permitting attendees to personally expertise titles and initiatives, meet with representatives of supporting companies, and have interaction with their varied providers.
In the Spazio Incontri Immersivo there shall be, from twenty ninth August to third September, panel discussions and actions devoted to the world of XR – Extended Reality.
The 2024 VPB Focus are Luxemburg & Wallonia-Brussels and Japan. Film Fund Luxemburg (Luxemburg), Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel (Wallonia-Brussels) and JETRO (Japan) can have devoted areas throughout the context of VPB.
The Island may even be the place the place groups (producer and creator) of the Immersive initiatives chosen for the Venice Gap-Financing Market will collect (thirtiethAugust – 1st September 2024):
16 IMMERSIVE PROJECTS:
16 Immersive initiatives (11 from Europe and 5 from world wide), together with fiction, documentary, animation and different interactive installation-based experiences, included the 4 initiatives coming from the Wallonia-Brussels & Luxembourg and the Japan VPB Focuses. All initiatives have secured 30% of their finances and have this financing in place. These 16 initiatives will ship a stay pitch on the Spazio Incontri Immersivo on the morning of thirtieth August.
8 BIENNALE COLLEGE CINEMA – IMMERSIVE PROJECTS:
8 initiatives, which have been developed through the workshop of Biennale College Cinema Immersive, eighth version, and which have reached completely different phases of improvement, pre-production and post-production.
Registered delegates with Industry Gold or Trade accreditations shall be entitled to request conferences with the chosen initiatives by means of our web site (veniceproductionbridge.org) within the devoted space to the VGFM.
The Venice Immersive Market would be the place the place establishments, professionals, manufacturing, post-production and distribution corporations, private and non-private funds linked to the Immersive world will convene.
