Project Detail

A Machine for Viewing

Synopsis

A unique three-episode hybrid of real-time VR experience, live performance, and video essay in which three moving image makers explore how we now watch films by putting various ‘machines for viewing’ including cinema and virtual reality face to face.
Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2020 - New Frontier

Details

Year: 2019
Type of film: Shorts
Running time: c. 25 min
Format: Real-time virtual reality (Real-time VR)
Director: Oscar Raby, Richard Misek, Charlie Shackleton
Producer: Oscar Raby, Richard Misek
Executive Producer: Oscar Raby, Richard Misek

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Vrtov

Oscar Raby

oscar@vrtov.com

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