The immersive VR piece “Bodyless,” director Hsin-Chien Huang’s dreamlike exploration of his own childhood growing up under Taiwanese martial law, took home top honors at Paris’ NewImages Festival o…
on Friday evening. Along with its newly minted Masque d’Or for best VR work, the 25-minute piece walked away with €6,000 in prize money.
Led by French music producer and composer Jean-Michel Jarre, this year’s jury – which also included directors Julie Bertuccelli, Jérémy Clapin and Alice Diop alongside actor Vimala Pons – honored two films with a second place tie, offering the special jury prize to both Ainslee Robson’s exploration of Ethiopian-American identity “Ferenj: A Graphic Memoir in VR,” and Fabito Rychter and Amir Admoni’s wryly surrealist “Gravity VR.
Jarre’s jury also awarded Marie Blondiaux and Charles Ayats’ interactive project “MOA – My Own Assistant,” which was adapted from a novel by French writer Alain Damasio, and which made its world premiere at the NewImages Festival, with the special jury prize for augmented reality.
For the second year in a row, NewImages partnered with the Kaohsiung Film Festival and the French Office in Taipei for a three-month VR residency program that includes mentoring sessions and €30,000 in funding. This year’s laureate is director Hayoun Kwon, who is mounting his project “The Guardians of Jade Mountain” with Balthazar Auxietre and Richard Turco of Innerspace VR.
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