München 72 - A documentary experience in virtual reality on the 50 anniversary of the Olympic Games and their tragic events․
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FIVARS 2022 Spotlight: The Tale of Onogoro interview with director Hiroyo Matsuyama
One day, it is reported that five Incensed Kami have manifested on the sacred floating island, Onogoro Island. Haru, as the High Priestess of the Grand Holy Shrine: Daijingu is […]
FIVARS 2022 Spotlight: Reimagined Volume I: Nyssa an interview with Julie Cavaliere
Inspired by the Brothers Grimm folktale, “A Tale of the Boy Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was,” the story follows Nyssa, a fearless yet naïve young witch who…
FIVARS 2022 Spotlight: Lustration – Interview with the creators
Lustration is a 4 part multi-strand animated series following a group of characters whose stories are mysteriously intertwined both in the real world and the afterlife. As these characters’ stories […]
FIVARS in Fall 2022 Spotlight: Flowing with Fire – interview with the Michael Gabriele
Los Angeles Flow Artists spin fire as a means to make deeper connections with themselves and the world around them.
FIVARS 2022 Spotlight: A Greenwood Mass / Offeren Y Llwyn an interview with Tracy Spottiswoode
At Lavernock Point in 1897, Marconi sent and received the world’s first wireless messages across open water, via the marriage of electromagnetic waves and Morse Code. His invention was to […]
FIVARS 2022 Spotlight: We Should Meet in Air – Interview with Director Stepy Kamei
A live, over-the-phone interactive experience designed for one audience member at a time. Framed as a phone call on her final birthday, the production allows audience members the ability to […]
FIVARS 2022 Spotlight: Interview with Namuanki creator Kevin Mack
FIVARS had a chance to speak with director Kevin Mack, a VFX artist and VR pioneer who won at the 71st Academy Awards in the category of Best Visual Effects…
FIVARS 2022 Spotlight – The MetaMovie Presents: Alien Rescue interview with Jason Moore
Alien Rescue is a live virtual reality experience where you play a role in an interactive movie that will be part of the Fall 2022 festival. Viewers participate and enhance […]
FIVARS 2022 Spotlight: Ion
Ion describes the processing procedure of a digital machine condensed into rhythmic patterns. FIVARS had a chance to speak with director Marek Slipek. What lead to the creation of this […]
FIVARS 2022 Spotlight: Castle of Unknowing
Enter into a virtual reality surrealist allegory, where the viewer explores themes of suffering and transformation. FIVARS had a chance to speak with Castle of Unknowing director Damian Thorn-Hauswirth. What […]
FIVARS 2022 Spotlight – NORN vol.1 -The 9 Daughters of RAN
“The 9 Daughters of RAN” is the first chapter of this Hero’s Journey set inside the mind, and summons you to the weavers of Fate, the Norns, who wants the […]
FIVARS 2022 Spotlight – Caves
FIVARS had a chance to speak with Carlos Isabel García - the director of festival-favorite "CAVES" that puts the viewer into the claustrophobic beauty of subterranean worlds in 360 video…
FIVARS in FEB 2022 Artist Retrospective: Jonathan Sims
FIVARs in FEB 2022 features a retrospective on the immersive visual works of Jonathan Sims. Read more about this groundbreaking artist.
FIVARS 2022 Spotlight – Ripples of Kindness
FIVARS spoke with the creators of Ripples of Kindness – a beautiful interactive multi-user communal VR experience that is a story of brotherhood, love and positivity, inspired by the stories […]