‘Blur’ gets my voice on Venice uniform

Blur Do not win awards at 82. Venice Film Festival, which is wrapped yesterday. This year’s competition was thirty projects. There were three winners, but Blur He dominated the conversation about Lazzaretto Island where uniform competition took place. From the moment I arrived a refrain was constant: “Did you see Blur? “The demand was far greater than the supply. Due to cruel mathematics of bandwidth and use, more than ten days, only three hundred people only experienced three hundred people Blur. Forty people a day.

Blur is unlike everything I have ever seen. It combines live performance and mixed reality in a way that is fresh, surprising and deep. And yet I can’t tell you exactly what happened or exactly what that means. As a memory, his force comes in fragments.

My trip began with a quiet assistant professor in the Red Dress that led me down the hall. In the end, another Asian woman, also in the Red Dress. They could have been twins. She showed. When I got closer, she reached and gently took my hand. Without explanation, she followed the number “11” on my palm. It was a gesture started. In the theater, you do not expect to touch, at least in VR, where the headphones usually create a distance. Instead, there was an intimacy that disarmed me. Then she produced a little Penkovac and instructed me to look at him. I thought for a moment Men in blackLike my memory was supposed to be deleted.

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Then I was taken in a narrow, darkened room with six chairs. My handset was an obuest 3 headphone, marked with the same number she wrote on my hand. The flippy shelves is built into the apartment on one side. I put the headphones. Inside, I could see the others as transparent, spirits of pictures made of light particles, and each leaves the shining paths when they moved. The woman in the red dress reappeared, now as a very convincing avatar, not the same as my abstract. It opens by book to discover the shining path. We follow her through the wall.

It started twenty or thirty minutes travel of free roaming that took place at several levels. We physically entered the circles in a room of about four hundred square meters, but it felt the hallway endlessly stretches. The technical trick erased the boundaries of space, creating a sense of long and unpredictable passage.

Directed by Craig Quitero Taipei Theater Riverbed and Phoebe Greenberg from Montreal PHI center, “Blur” combines live performance with free Roam VR.

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The images were fragmented, dreams, sometimes in the cartoon. I saw a woman with a young boy in the order drawing line. The hospital scene appeared, it is difficult with the loss proposal. Later, the geyser broke out, spawning eyeballs floating upward in bubbles. The scenes were surreal and poetic. Like dreams that are built to remember imperfectly.

Then he came the moment I was most ignited. As I followed the road, I faced myself. My double hovered before me. He smiled. It was an unusual and memorable, simple effect that landed force over what this personally meant at that moment. And then it was over.

When I took off the headphones, Ko-director Craig Quinter was waiting. He asked what I meant. All I could say is, “I’m not sure what just happened, but it was amazing.”

There is a veil of mourning because of the whole part.

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That reaction was a point. “What if we can win death?” Quintero said in the note of his director. “While we strive to disrupt the laws of nature at the same time that we will undermine our basic understanding of humanity. It seems built BlurWe use VR, AR and AI to enter the unknown. “

Greenberg approached the project from a similar place. “Craig and I met in Venice Immoriva and recognized the opportunity to explore the intersection of technology, narration and ethics,” she said. “The idea of ​​biiointering, cloning and ethics of the DNA harvest became a background for the story of loss and tragedy.”

Phi Center with congenital in Montreal, which Greenberg founded 2012. year, became the center of new media art, which brings together cinema, music, theater and KSR. “Blur It is deeply emotional work that reflects the Phi studio mission to strengthen the bold, uniform narrative, “she said in Venice.” Unbelievably proud that here he has recognized that we are negotiating artistic risk and innovation here. “

Quintero, who has staged more than fifty superior, image-based productions with thai thai, see Blur as part of a continuum. “Since in the establishment of River in 1998., we crossed the stabilic performances in a black box until I enter 1,500 seats. It was extraordinarily to work with Phoebe and our associates while continuing to push the boundaries of what is possible.”

The project lasted more than two years to produce. Before moving to Taiwan National Theater before traveling to Venice. Along the way, she drew a wide range of associates, from choreographer to visual artists. “Have traditional artists find the way to this digital world was super exciting,” Greenberg told me. “The role of the artist is not to give answers, but to ask questions.”

That philosophy explains Blur. Sets the questions, not to deliver answers: Can science heal a broken heart, or will consider what makes us human? In his world, the resurrected mammoths wander, and manages underground facilities, and hybrids for human animals embody both triumph and ambiguity. Still, none of that exists as an exhibition. Comes as fragments, flashing and encounters.

Venice in Immoriva was created for this work. When Binana launched the program 2017. year, the first main festival set KSR at the competition. The symbolic weight of the golden lions of the questions, not just artists, but on the entire field. Previous winners include Eliza McNitt’s Sphere and Laurie Anderson Moon. Mcnitt was actually the president of the jury, winning a few years ago.

Blur is a theatrical experience with the beginning, medium and ultimate but not a linear story. It is surreal, separated and unforgettable. Like her title, it’s blur, we move from experience in memory and then long long lasting.