Editor’s note: Each year, IndieWire collaborates with MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Program by inviting students to reflect on Sundance’s New Frontier program.
Sundance’s New Frontiers’ team faced a new challenge in 2021: to program a body of work that grapples with contemporary issues through emerging media. In an ongoing and uncertain Covid-19 reality, what would such mediums be able to provide that other traditional platforms couldn’t? While it may have started off as a larger question on festival trends, it turned into a plethora of experiences — some VR, some computer-generated and some mobile — to highlight our own personal reckonings within a collective moment.
In Sam Green’s “7 Sounds” (or “cinema for your ears,” as it was described by an introductory video, the audience was brought into a deeper iteration of creativity through immersive spatial reckoning. What happens when you tap into archives of natural sound?...
Sundance’s New Frontiers’ team faced a new challenge in 2021: to program a body of work that grapples with contemporary issues through emerging media. In an ongoing and uncertain Covid-19 reality, what would such mediums be able to provide that other traditional platforms couldn’t? While it may have started off as a larger question on festival trends, it turned into a plethora of experiences — some VR, some computer-generated and some mobile — to highlight our own personal reckonings within a collective moment.
In Sam Green’s “7 Sounds” (or “cinema for your ears,” as it was described by an introductory video, the audience was brought into a deeper iteration of creativity through immersive spatial reckoning. What happens when you tap into archives of natural sound?...
- 2/6/2021
- by Srushti Kamat
- Indiewire
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