{"id":189398,"date":"2024-12-05T14:59:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T13:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iffr.com\/en\/?p=189398"},"modified":"2024-12-09T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T10:06:05","slug":"pro-immersive-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iffr.com\/en\/pro-immersive-2025","title":{"rendered":"Immersive storytelling at IFFR Pro\u2019s CineMart and Darkroom 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In its co-production market CineMart and Darkroom work-in-progress programme, IFFR Pro creates a space for immersive media projects to find the vital industry connections to help them flourish. At IFFR 2025, six immersive media projects can be found across the selections, with four presented by Dutch makers.<\/p>\n\n\n

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From profound explorations into our relationship to war, to fluid distortions of time and shimmering immersions into the world of glitter, the immersive projects across the lineups represent the boldest new forms of storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 42nd CineMart featuring the third edition of Darkroom runs from Sunday 2 to Wednesday 5 February 2025. Browse the full CineMart selection here<\/a> and the Darkroom selection here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the CineMart Immersive selection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dutch artist Floris van Laethem presented the world premiere of the immersive experience Realmbreak Hotel <\/strong>at IFFR 2024. He returns to the festival with Hyperdam<\/strong>, a mixed-reality surreal dark comedy escape drama, told through the eyes of Vinny, who is consumed by delusions of a phantom father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the experimental music-dance film Touch<\/strong> (IFFR 2020) and the immersive op\u00e9ra Orph\u00e9e | l\u2019Amour | Eurydice<\/strong> (CineMart 2021), Rotterdam artist Robin Coops returns to CineMart with an Alice in Wonderland-inspired surreal musical experience One Charming Night<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lilian Hess premiered her CineMart and Darkroom-presented immersive work Duchampiana<\/strong> in Venice Immersive this year, and returns with Strata<\/strong>: an immersive, multisensory journey into the shimmering, fractured world of glitter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Dreams of Time<\/strong> by Venezuelan artist Jeissy Trompiz, time becomes fluid and shaped by other dimensions as the viewer is invited to places like Pompeii, La Gomera and the dystopian remains of Venezuela, where indigenous communities view dreams as an extension of life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the Darkroom immersive selection<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Two Dutch immersive projects are presented in the Darkroom lineup, which offers a platform to present to the international industry recently or nearly completed projects seeking completion or gap funding, sales agents and festivals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A marching rhythm performed by water drops, cracking glass, hammers, bells and gongs soundtracks The March <\/strong>by photographer Leo Erken and composer Frieda Gustavs, who bring a VR experience that deals with our relations and responsibilities to war, violence and inequality. The last of six scenes is still to be created, and will be made in cooperation with the artistic children of the Azi Nizi Maza Studio in Kharkiv, Ukraine. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Ernst was awarded the Golden Calf for Best Interactive at the Netherlands Film Festival for his VR diorama Diorama No.4: Die Fernweh Oper <\/strong>(IFFR 20219). His latest work The Great Orator<\/strong> presents an AI-driven orator that crafts ever-changing articulations based on current events and visitor interactions, challenging you to question what is real and what is not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\t

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