XR Festival NewImages Offers Protean Industry a Public Face

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Running April 5 – 9 at Paris’ Forum des Images, this year’s NewImages Festival reflects a young medium ever on the move, an ecosystem looking backwards and ahead in order to reimagine itself for th…

reflects a young medium ever on the move, an ecosystem looking backwards and ahead in order to reimagine itself for the here-and-now.Variety

Encompassing VR games and documentaries to mixed media installations and AR works for social media, the 13 projects competing for the NewImages top prize collectively trace the wider currents remaking a protean industry – while this slightly smaller selection compared with previous years reflects a young festival itself undergoing some change.

Indeed, this year’s competition features a number of wildly different proposition that include 360 cinema like weighty docudrama “The Man Who Couldn’t Leave” and the jaunty caper “Kidnapped in Vostok,” alongside the multiuser immersive experiences like “IVF-X: Posthuman Parenting in Hybrid Reality” and the Augmented Reality doc “His Name Is My Name,” which was produced for and distributed on Instagram.

 

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