Some Creepy Stories Can Be Experienced in VR at This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival
Jonathan Barkan
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Yesterday we posted the first announcement for the 16th annual Tribeca Film Festival, which will run April 19th-30th. The Festival will be bringing several top-notch genre films, including Mickey Keating’s Psychopaths, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s The Endless, Clay Staub’s Devil’s Gate, and much more.
Today the Festival has released an announcement about its VR offerings, of which there will be 29 different titles. There will be six storyscapes and 23 interactive titles, several of which seem like they’d be right up the alley of any horror fan! I’ve culled the ones that I thought were the most interesting, each of which you can see below.
Remember… tickets are available right now on Tribeca’s website, so get yours before they’re all gone!
Alteration (World Premiere) – France:
Project Creator: Jérôme Blanquet
Key Collaborators: James Sénade, Yann Apéry, Antoine Cayrol, Baptiste Chesnais, Pierre Zandrowicz, Jean-françois Blanquet
This is a poetic trip into the future: Alexandro volunteers for an experiment carried out to study dreams. He can’t imagine that he will be subjected to the intrusion of Elsa, a form of Artificial Intelligence who aims to digitize his subconscious in order to feed off it. She’s a vampire…bit by megabit.
Apex (World Premiere) – The Netherlands/USA:
Project Creator: Arjan van Meerten
Key Collaborator: Wevr
The stunning new experience from the brilliant imagination of 3D artist and musician Arjan van Meerten, APEX is the highly anticipated follow up to the creator’s acclaimed and award-winning experience Surge. Step into a surrealistic and darkly beautiful vision of a fiery urban apocalypse, one populated by skeletal ghost animals, abstract shapes, maniacal smiling giants, and, of course, you.
Arden’s Wake (World Premiere) – USA:
Project Creator: Eugene Chung
Key Collaborators: Jimmy Maidens
The sea levels have risen, and a young woman and her father live in a lighthouse perched atop the ocean’s surface. When he goes missing, she descends deep into the post-apocalyptic waters previously forbidden to her, embarking on a thrilling journey of family history and self-discovery. From the creators of the magnificent Allumette (Tribeca 2016), Arden’s Wake continues the elegant evolution of storytelling from Penrose Studios.
Broken Night (World Premiere) – USA:
Project Creator: Alon Benari, Tal Zubalsky, Alex Vlack
Key Collaborators: Eko, Hidden Content, Real Motion VFX
Broken Night explores a woman’s (Emily Mortimer) unreliable narrative of an intense trauma. Speaking to a detective, her confused memories unfold: Returning home in the midst of a fight with her husband (Alessandro Nivola), they encounter an intruder. The viewer is placed in a position of choosing which memories to follow, sharing her confusion before coming to the startling truth.
Remember: Remember (World Premiere) – USA:
Project Creator: Kevin Cornish
If our minds are a map of every memory we’ve had, what do we become if those memories are stripped away? In this cinematic, room-scale VR experience set against the backdrop of an alien invasion, you are a prisoner being brainwashed by a lost love. As you cycle through your memories, the two of you begin to question what is real and what is imagined.
Sergeant James (North American Premiere) – France:
Project Creator: Alexandre Perez
Key Collaborators: Avi Amar
It’s Leo’s bedtime, but he thinks there is something under his bed. Is it just the harmless imagination of a young boy, or something more sinister? Is it…you? From director Alexandre Perez, Sergeant James recaptures the innocence of youth, the wonder of the unknown, and the folly of fear, while hinting at a far creepier possibility.
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