Red Sea Film Festival: Is VR the future of storytelling? - KAWA - KAWA News

Immersive storytelling is inactive successful its infancy. But already, it questions the limits usually encountered successful our mode of telling stories. “Space, sensations, interactivity… This caller attack made imaginable by some hardware and bundle innovation offers caller and unlimited possibilities and brings a enactment of caller aerial to storytelling arsenic we cognize it”, explains Liz Rosenthal, curator of the “VR zone” of the Red Sea International Film Festival, a relation she besides plays astatine the Venice Film Festival and the Venice Art Biennale. 

For each tastes 

In total, 10 antithetic adventures are disposable to try, lasting from a fewer minutes to much than an hour. Some, similar the Turkish “Elele” are much focused connected the sensory acquisition and the objection of what the exertion allows, particularly connected the question capture, with a bluffing modeling of the user’s hands. Others, similar “The Kingdom of Plants”, directed by Iona McEwan, and narrated by nary different than David Attenborough, crook our perspectives upside down by making america observe the hidden look of the works satellite done a constituent of presumption astatine its ain scale. In fact, nary 2 experiences are alike. There truly is thing for everyone. 

Relatively young everyplace successful the world, VR is besides young successful Saudi Arabia, wherever it is chiefly aimed astatine a alternatively young audience, funny successful the gaming world. But done the prism of the Red Sea Film Festival, the tract of possibilities is widening, and the imaginable of the technologies connected show successful the movie manufacture seems precise promising, judging by the involvement shown by professionals successful the tract successful the celebrated “VR Zone”.