Virtual reality film takes you inside infamous South American jail
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A mysterious woman flanked by two blue jaguars welcomes you to an infamous South American jail.
You don a golden mask, step inside and take a surreal journey among guards, prisoners, spirits and animals.
Virtual reality film heading for Sundance: director Violeta Ayala with (from left) producer Dan Fallshaw, composer XNYWOLF (Andre Patzi) and 3D Illustrator Roly Elias at the United Notions studio in Sydneyâs Petersham.
Credit:James Alcock
Violeta Ayalaâs virtual reality film
This year there’s a scaled-down selection of titles to view, with Baobab Studios’
Namoo is Korean for “tree”, taking viewers on a journey through a man’s life with each branch a different memory. Created using Oculus’
Quill,the project will be coming to Oculus platforms later this year.
And then there’s
Prison X,
Chapter 1: The Devil and The Sun, a new VR series from Quechua filmmaker Violeta Ayala. The first episode takes you into Bolivia’s infamous San Sebastian Prison as Inti, a young man imprisoned after his first job as a drug mule. “It was my world but it wasn’t a world you could capture with a camera,” says Ayala who grew up three blocks from the prison. “And I needed technology that wasn’t yet invented – virtual reality.”
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Sundance typically takes place in Park City, Utah. Getty Images
The Sundance Film Festival is going more virtual than ever, which is saying something for the fest that helped put virtual reality on Hollywood s radar.
Running for eight days starting Jan. 28, Sundance will take place both on custom online platforms and through in-person events, including satellite screenings across the US as permitted by COVID-19 public-health protocols. But no part is going more virtual than New Frontier, the fest s branch focused on cutting-edge storytelling. In recent years, New Frontier s emphasis on tech-driven
Together
Together starring Ed Helms
are among 72 features selected for 2021 Sundance Film Festival, which runs online and in select US arthouse venues from January 28-February 3.
The line-up, announced on Tuesday (December 15), includes
One For The Road, Thai filmmaker Baz Poonpiriya’s follow-up to
Bad Genius; Edgar Wright’s music documentary
The Sparks Brothers
Land; Ben Wheatley’s virus horror
In The Earth; The Roots drummer Questlove’s documentary
Summer Of Soul; and Kevin Macdonald’s Special Screenings selection
Life In A Day 2020.
A features roster representing 29 countries and 38 first-time feature filmmakers includes three films from Cannes Label 2020:
Pascual Sisto’s