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Talents and Short Film Market SE #1

29.06-02.07.2023 - Schlanders/Silandro/Solaneres, Italy

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Talents and Short Film Market vol. 8

27-29.11.2023 - Torino, Italy

XR CONTENT AND I ♥ FRENCH XR SHOWCASE

XR Content is a market showcase dedicated to Extended reality experiences. TSFM XR Content and I ♥ French XR showcase can be visited from November 28th to 30th 2022 (from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm) at The National Museum of Cinema.

Collecting the inheritance of the past editions, the Talent and Short Film Market volume 7 extended reality showcase includes thirteen experiences coming from eight different countries of co-production: Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Italy, Norway, United States and United Kingdom.

The selection especially focuses on the various presence of animation inside the world or immersive production, whether is used as an emphatic tool to materialise stories and desires as in the Italian Surfacing by Rossella Schillaci, bringing us in the everyday life of mothers and children detained in the correction facility Le Vallette of Turin, presenting to its hometown for the first time after Venice Immersive (the experience is produced by the Turin-based studio MyBossWas and supported by FCTP and MEDIA); or a way to visualise voice-recorded pieces of history, as happens in Accused #2 Walter Sisulo by Nicolas Champeaux and Gilles Porte; till NORN vol.1 – The 9 Daughters of RAN by Lina Reinsbakken in which animation summons all its complete imaginative power to venture, through an allegorical fairytale, inside the Brain, where anatomy is mixed with Norse Mythology and the characters are personified neurons, hormones and cognitive thoughts. The showcase is also proud to introduce the audience to the Turin premiere of Montegelato, the first work in extended reality of Milan-based visual artist Davide Rapp.

Thanks to UniFrance and to the precious redistribution programme put together by the Institut français in collaboration with Arte, the second edition of I ♥ French XR showcase includes some of the most famous French experiences ever produced, also showcasing all the major French distribution and production companies active on the field. Among the most awarded experiences the audience will find the amazing natural immersion of Planet ∞ by the award-winning and world-famous animation director Momoko Seto; Un Bar aux Folies Bergère, a journey inside Eduard Manet’s painting where his characters come to life, adapted by Gabrielle Lissot; and L’île des morts by Benjamin Nuel, Clémence Madeleine Perdrillat, an immersion which puts together the eponymous painting by Arnold Böcklin and the symphonic poem of Sergei Rachmaninov that was originally inspired by it, winner of Best VR Story at Venice International Film Festival.

The TSFM XR Content and I ♥ French XR will be hosted at the CineVR Rooms inside The National Museum of Cinema. Access is reserved to Museo del Cinema tickets holders. TSFM badge holders have to collect their complementary admission at the ticket office of The National Museum of Cinema. Slots cannot be booked in advance, access to the headsets will be on a first come first served basis.

Awards
RAI Cinema
Rai Cinema, which is actively presiding the immersive content market by both boosting the Italian creators internationally and strengthening the national virtual space by supporting production, audience development, literacy, research and distribution — will award one of the XR showcased projects with an exclusive acquisition for the Italian territory on RAI Cinema Channel VR App, available on App Store, Play Store and Oculus. hub
Titles
Dream Builders: The Cenotaph for Newton
by Arnaud Desjardins / France /2022 / 8′

Welcome at The Cenotaph for Isaac Newton, a monument imagined in 1784 by artist of utopias Etienne-Louis Boullée

Surfacing (Affiorare)

by Rossella Schillaci / Italy / 2022 / 21′

A 360 immersive fairy tale, set amongst mothers and children who live in prison. A magical journey in their everyday life, with animations of their surreal memories of the past and dreams for the future, created through a collaborative process.

Gloomy Eyes

by Jorge Tereso, Fernando Maldonado / France / Argentina / 2019 / 29’

It’s 1983 on a cold night in Woodland City. Being a zombie is against the law. But Gloomy is not completely like other zombies.

NORN vol.1 – The 9 Daughters of RAN

by Lina Reinsbakken / Norway / UK / USA / China / 2022, 25’

The cognitive thought and Dream Designer venture the brain on a dangerous quest: to deliver the Will from Fear and save the State of Fantasy.

They Dream in My Bones – Insemnopedy II

by Faye Formisano / France / 2021 / 17’

A transfixing meditation and a stirring experiential proposition that explores what fabric might bind the physical and metaphysical, and how to extract dreams from an unknown skeleton.

Planet ∞

by Momoko Seto / France / 2017 / 6’

In a world in ruins, only fungi and mold grow in the middle of gigantic dried insect bodies.


Marco & Polo Go Round
by Benjamin Steiger Levine / Canada / Belgium / 2021, 12’

A comedic love story with a very surreal twist. A couple confronts the difficulties in their relationship as gravity turns on its head and their world literally falls apart

Revivre Notre Dame

by Chloé Rochereuil / France / 2020 / 17’

On April 15, 2019, the Notre-Dame cathedral caught fire. Today, Notre-Dame is not entirely saved, but still standing.

Un Bar aux Folies Bergère

by Gabrielle Lissot / France / 2018 / 6’

An immersion into Manet’s head, eyes and thoughts, in four acts and across four characters. Co-written and adapted by Gabrielle Lissot, award-winning animation director.

Kinoscope
by Clément Léotard, Philippe Collin / France / 2017 / 9’

A lively and colorful immersive universe to discover the history of cinema led by the voice of the Hollywood legend Dean Tavoularis, motion picture production designer of box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink’s Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.

Montegelato
by Davide Rapp / Italy / 2021 / 15’

Hundreds of cinematic sequences define a three-dimensional collage of the Monte Gelato waterfalls (Rome) as they have been filmed in more than 180 productions including films, tv series, and ads.

Accused #2 Walter Sisulu
by Nicolas Champeaux, Gilles Porte / France / 2019 / 15’

Walter Sisulo was the one who found Nelson Mandela. Co-accused during the Rivonia trial in 1963 and 1964 against the apartheid, he had a gripping confrontation with an overtly racist prosecutor, stooding up to the unrelenting aggression.

L’Île des morts (Isle of the Dead)
by Benjamin Nuel, Clémence Madeleine Perdrillat / France / 2018

From an everyday apartment towards our final destination, a timeless journey guided by Charon, ferryman of the Underworld, inside the eponymous work of Arnold Böcklin.

Things to know

A Museo del Cinema ticket is mandatory to access the TSFM XR Content and I ♥ France XR Showcase.