WONDERSPACES LAUNCHES VIRTUAL REALITY FILM SERIES IN AUSTIN

A brand new award-winning VR expertise introduced each month at Suite 650

AUSTIN, Texas, June 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Wonderspaces, presenters of immersive artwork in Austin since July 2020, proclaims the launch of a month-to-month Digital Actuality (VR) Movie Sequence at Suite 650, a brand new multipurpose manufacturing house and inventive studio situated on Hwy 183. Wonderspaces will current a celebrated VR movie for one weekend a month, beginning with award-winning movie Gloomy Eyes by Fernando Maldonaldo and Jorge Tereso on June 25 and twenty sixth.

“Yearly, artists create extraordinary VR movies that attain solely the individuals who can afford to spend lots of on pageant badges or particular {hardware},” mentioned Jason Shin, Wonderspaces’ President. “We’re excited to companion with these gifted artists and the staff at Suite 650 to make these movies accessible to the broadest attainable viewers.”

Tickets for Gloomy Eyes might be on sale beginning Monday, June 6 at midday and might be accessible at https://austin.wonderspaces.com/tickets. Tickets are $16 for adults and $12 for kids underneath 13, with 50% off for Wonderspaces members. Every go to runs for roughly 50 minutes and showtimes begin on the hour from 12pm – 7pm on choose Saturdays and Sundays. New tickets might be launched month-to-month.  

Photographs from the Wonderspaces VR Movie Sequence at Suite 650.

VR EXPERIENCE LINEUP

Dates previous October to be introduced

Jun 25-26, 2022          Gloomy Eyes by Fernando Maldonado and Jorge Tereso 
Jul 23-24, 2022           Madrid Noir by James Castillo 
Aug 27-28, 2022         Ayahuasca: Kosmik Journey by Jan Kounen / Shigeto: Hovering 
by Conor Grebel and 79Ancestors 
Sep 24-25, 2022          Touring Whereas Black by Roger Ross Williams 
Oct 22-23, 2022          Spheres by Eliza McNitt

ABOUT THE FILMS

Gloomy Eyes by Fernando Maldonado and Jorge Tereso

Gloomy Eyes, directed by Fernand Maldonado and Jorge Tereso, produced by Atlas V, and narrated by Colin Farrell, tells the story of a zombie boy named Gloomy in a 360-degree animated world that has fallen into darkness.  This immersive movie gained SXSW’s Digital Cinema Jury Award in 2019.

The expertise is damaged into three elements and runs for 50 minutes. Picture.

Madrid Noir by James Castillo

Madrid Noir follows a younger lady as she uncovers the secrets and techniques of her estranged and deceased uncle by reliving the summers she spent with him as a baby.

This 45 min narrative-driven thriller premiered on the Tribeca Movie Pageant and earned recognition on the Cannes and Venice Movie Festivals.  Picture.

Ayahuasca: Kosmik Journey by Jan Kounen / Shigeto: Hovering by Conor Grebel and 79Ancestors

This weekend we’re presenting a pairing of otherworldly VR brief movies.

Shigeto: Hovering is a transcendent story of life-giving water dropped at a dying planet. Constructed largely from bodily parts digitally-scanned in nature, the vivid audiovisual collaboration with Shigeto presents an extraterrestrial digital world constructed from terrestrial artifacts. The mission’s director, Conor Grebel, creates stunningly unique visible results by combining each fashionable digital and conventional analog methods, typically utilizing nature or chemical reactions as his essential topic. The collaboration was created for a music compilation LP referred to as Territories — an audiovisual idea album curated by the 79 Ancestors label. Picture.

Director Jan Kounen created this 17-minute movie primarily based on his experiences with Ayahuasca within the Amazon.  The movie invitations individuals to comply with a Shaman by means of Ayahuasca’s psychedelic and religious results.  Picture.

Touring Whereas Black by Roger Ross Williams

Directed by Academy Award winner Roger Ross Williams and produced by Emmy Award-winning Felix & Paul Studios, this documentary-style digital actuality movie immerses the viewer within the lengthy historical past of restriction of motion for Black Individuals and Confronting the best way we perceive and speak about race in America.  Picture.

Spheres by Eliza McNitt

This three chapter interactive digital actuality journey from Author/Director Eliza McNitt and Government Producers Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel uncovers the hidden songs of the cosmos. House isn’t silent. It is filled with sounds. We glance to the celebs to seek out our place within the Universe, however for the primary time we take heed to its music.  This acclaimed expertise premiered at Sundance and obtained the Grand Prize in VR on the Venice Movie Pageant. Picture.

Location for VR Movie Sequence 
2500 Hwy 183 S, Suite 650 
Austin, TX 78744

ABOUT WONDERSPACES:

Based mostly in Los Angeles, Wonderspaces has been presenting extraordinary and accessible artwork to new audiences by means of ticketed reveals since 2017 and at the moment operates reveals year-round in Scottsdale, Philadelphia, and Austin.

Over 200k individuals have skilled Wonderspaces’ 28k sq. foot present at 1205 Sheldon Cove in NE Austin, which runs year-round and options an evolving lineup of immersive and interactive artwork.

To be taught extra, go to wonderspaces.com, @wonderspaces or @wonderspacesaustin on social media, or contact Advertising and Communications Supervisor Julia Ottenberg at [email protected].

ABOUT SUITE 650:

Suite 650 is a multipurpose manufacturing house and inventive studio primarily based in Austin, Texas. A house for multidisciplinary creatives to conceptualize, collaborate and discover filmmaking, pictures, music, design, efficiency artwork, and extra. Suite 650 is a workspace and an area to have fun tasks of many sizes and shapes. Suite 650 presents malleable manufacturing house, digital camera and lighting tools, and a wide range of auxiliary inventive providers.

Suite 650 is situated at 2500 Hwy 183 S, Austin, TX 78744. For extra info, go to https://ste650.com or @suite650 on social media. Picture.

SOURCE Wonderspaces, Inc.