The New York Film Festival’s Virtual Cinema Program Has a Limited Field of Vision – Art in America 🔗 🗽 🖼 🎥 🍿

Alums of NYFF’s main slate such as Tsai Ming-liang, Laurie Anderson, and Alejandro González Iñárritu have all premiered new VR works at film festivals in Venice and Cannes in the past two years. But they have not been included in Convergence. Even film-related AR and VR that premiered at Sundance’s New Frontiers (like Rachel Rossin’s The Sky Is a Gap, which drew inspiration from Zabriskie Point) can only be seen at festivals in other cities, or at art galleries. For NYFF, which reliably offers the best of European fests, Sundance, and a few impressive world premieres, Convergence’s divergent rubric is glaring.

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