Inarritu’s VR installation headed to Milan after Cannes premiere
A VIRTUALLY reality installation by the Mexican film director Alejandro G. Inarritu is to get its world premiere as part of the Official Selection at this year's Cannes Film Festival, before going on show in Milan.
Produced in part by the Fondazione Prada and set to go on show in Milan following the world premiere, ' CARNE y ARENA ( Virtually Present, Physically Invisible)' is described as a “large, multi-narrative light space with human characters.”
Inarritu worked with frequent collaborator Emmanuel Lubezki -- an Oscar-winning cinematographer whose credits with the director include ' Birdman' and ' The Revenant' -- on the six- and- a-half minute visual installation, which is said to explore the human condition of refugees.
Over four years, Inarritu interviewed Mexican and Central American refugees, and invited some to collaborate on the project. Visitors to the installation will be able to walk within a vast space and “live the refugees' personal journeys.”
“My intention was to experiment with VR technology to explore the human condition in an attempt to break the dictatorship of the frame, within which things are just observed, and claim the space to allow the visitor to go through a direct experience walking in the immigrants' feet, under their skin, and into their hearts,” said the Oscar-winning director of ' Amores Perros', ' Babel' and ' Biutiful'.”
Following the Cannes Festival premiere, where it is the first and only virtual reality project
My intention was to experiment with VR technology to explore the human condition.... Alejandro Inarritu, director
in the Official Selection, 'CARNE y ARENA' will be shown in an extended full version at the Fondazione Prada in Milan from June through December 2017. — Relaxnews