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Following last year’s success, the VR Arles Festival is setting up for the summer months, from 3 July to 31 August, as part of the 2017 edition of the Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles. Some twenty virtual-reality films, including several interactive projects, will be shown during this second edition.
70
days
50.000
visitors expected
20
films including several new releases
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The VR Arles Festival, the leading arts event in virtual reality, invites the public for a 360° discovery of cinema, documentaries and artistic creation. Spectators will be plunged into the midst of the world’s best virtual reality productions. The festival forms an integral part of the Rencontres d’Arles and will run for 11 weeks. BNP Paribas is the main sponsor for the second time round.
The opening week, from 3 to 9 July, will be devoted to a competition with a jury that will meet in the Saint-Césaire centre on 4 and 5 July to award a prize of €10,000 to the best film among those selected. Film director and jury president Michel Hazanavicius will be joined by Valérie Donzelli (actress and film director), Mercedes Erra (Executive President of the Havas group), Elisha Karmitz (Head of mk2 Agency), Vincent Perez (actor and film director), Bertrand Cizeau (Global Head of Communication at BNP Paribas), Benoit Baume (President and CEO of Fisheye) and Olivier Mégean (President and CEO of Le Point).
“ THIS NEW LANGUAGE OF IMAGES, THAT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT WHAT YOU SEE AND WHAT YOU DON’T SEE, IN A WAY IS THE ESSENCE OF ANTI-PHOTOGRAPHY ”
Head of the Rencontres d’Arles for the second year
Freely available headsets will enable the general public and professionals, assisted by demonstrators, to discover a selection of 20 VR films.
Films by category:
Talks and encounters with VR professionals will give film directors the chance to share thoughts with the public and reflect on the technical demands of VR. The programme will revolve around 4 themes: VR technique and dissemination; Writing fiction; Journalism in VR; and Artwork in VR.
2017 crowns a century-long history between BNP Paribas and cinema. 100 years of building a special relationship and nurturing shared values which eventually made BNP Paribas the European bank of the film industry. BNP Paribas more than ever wishes to support cinema in every step of its development and to offer audiences new consumer modes like Virtual Reality, through its partnership with mk2 VR and the VIR Arles Festival.