By Ben Croll. We have much to mediate and explore. To that end, Ziegler and her team took a dual track, curating a project competition with an eye toward audience accessibility and a seven-title out-of-competition showcase united around a shared theme of cultural transmission. Popular on Variety. When curating this project competition from submissions, Ziegler and her team focused above all on ease of use β testing out each experience with a selection committee that included several immersive neophytes.
Exploring the civil rights struggle, the Cambodian genocide and the experience of Bedouin communities in Palestine, the seven projects selected for out-of-competition slots all needed to reflect new forms of embodiment and empathy.
You have to go a bit further in order to reach them, to get them to learn and have fun and be moved, and we show these completely different ways of valuing our human memory. But at the same time, the festival also wants more casual visitors to walk away sharing that same zeal. Our mission is to bring these works to the new audiences β as many of them as possible.
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