Virtual Cinema: Program Two
57th New York Film Festival
September 27 - October 13, 2019
Featuring Maria Belen Poncio’s Metro Viente, Ryan Schmal Murray’s Eyelydian, Lucas Gath and Shannon Service’s Ghost Fleet, and Lonelyleap’s Send Me Home.
Q&A with Send Me Home filmmaker Fiz Olajide and subject Rickey Jackson at the 7:30pm program on Oct. 10
Q&A with James Shallot (Last Whispers) and Ghost Fleet director Lucas Gath and editor-stitcher Simon Toro at the 5pm program on Oct. 12
Metro Viente
Dir. Maria Belen Poncio, Argentina, 2018, 19m
Juana uses a social app to arrange a date with Felipe, without mentioning the fact that she uses a wheelchair. Together they will navigate a typically awkward first date and along the way help each other discover something about themselves in Poncio’s elegant 360-degree experience.
World Premiere
Eyelydian
Dir. Ryan Schmal Murray, USA, 2019, 3m
This evocative, wholly original 360-degree experience begins by presenting the audience with abstract images, colors, and sounds meant to replicate sunlight against closed eyelids before evolving into a meditative, dreamlike state.
Ghost Fleet
Dir. Lucas Gath and Shannon Service, USA, 2019, 8m
Modern-day slavery is explored through the eyes of Tun Lin, who at the age of 14 was kidnapped and forced into labor aboard a fishing vessel before escaping. In this VR experience, his gripping story opens a window onto a dark world where countless men and women still suffer at sea.
Send Me Home
Dir. Lonelyleap, USA, 2018, 13m
Rickey Jackson spent 40 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, and was only released after a key witness recanted testimony. Now, Jackson has thrown himself into making the most of his life, asking the rest of us to reflect on our own lives as well, in this deeply personal, 360-degree film about time lost and time regained.
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