Missing Pictures brings a caller five-part immersive documentary postulation to virtual reality, coming to Quest and PC VR connected December 1.
A collaborative effort betwixt aggregate accumulation companies, Missing Pictures promises “a parallel past of cinema done virtual reality.” Running for 10 minutes per episode, the Missing Pictures postulation is directed by Clément Deneux, with idiosyncratic episodes featuring directors Abel Ferrara, Naomi Kawase, Catherine Hardwicke, Lee Myung-se and Tsai Ming-Liang. Tsai Ming-Liang and Kuan-Yuan Lai articulation Denuex arsenic co-directors connected episodes 2 and four.
Each occurrence details the communicative of a movie that the directors were incapable to marque and the circumstances that prevented them from getting them disconnected the ground, betwixt financing problems, “overly governmental subjects,” and more. Shot successful volumetric capture, Missing Pictures claims that it’s utilizing VR to spell beyond modular interviews, taking viewers to a behind-the-scenes imagining of these dreamed worlds.
“We wanted to usage the specificities of VR and volumetric seizure to embody these shade films. Virtual world allows america to make a reinterpretation of the cinematic project, thing that is not astir cinema but much astir an brushwood betwixt the assemblage and the filmmakers,” explained Deneux, successful a prepared statement. “The main situation was that each occurrence should person its ain personality, reflecting the originative process and the creator beingness of each of these filmmakers.”
Missing Pictures releases connected December 1, disposable on the Meta Quest platform via App Lab, alongside PC VR via Steam and Viveport.