Chicago: Chicago Film Festival Immersive

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October 9, 2018
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Experience VR works like Dispatch, Spheres, Vestige, and more

When: October 11–14
Where: VR Spot at AMC River East 21, 2nd Floor, 322 E Illinois St, Chicago, IL 60611
Price: Free; first-come, first-served basis; arrive at least 15 min. before each session

Tags: #VR, #immersive, #festival, #free, #interactive, #ContentAdvisory (see below)

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Program includes the following:

BattleScar: It’s 1978 New York City, and Lupe, a Puerto Rican-American girl (voiced by Rosario Dawson), meets Debbie, another runaway kid who exposes her to the rebellious punk music scene of the Lower East Side. Employing eye-catching animation and a fantastic soundtrack, BattleScar is an immersive period portrait of a young Hispanic girl’s coming of age.

Dispatch: From Chicago writer-director Edward Robles comes this intense, four-part crime thriller about a small-town police dispatcher named Ted. What begins as a routine night of calls quickly escalates into a series of violent attacks. Unfolding in Ted’s imagination, Dispatch uniquely combines vector graphics and layered soundscapes — of terrified callers and Ted’s attempts to help — into an engrossing VR noir.

The Great C: Inspired by Philip K. Dick’s short story, this postapocalyptic animated fable imagines a world ruled over by an all-powerful A.I. known as “The Great C.” Each year, one villager is sent on a pilgrimage to appease the omnipotent supercomputer — but never returns. With impressively rendered, multi-dimensional CGI environments, this sci-fi adventure envelops the viewer in a haunting and fantastical new world.

Spheres: Pale Blue Dot: Narrated by singer-songwriter Patti Smith, this cosmic journey takes viewers on a phantasmagoric trip into space and through time, from the Big Bang to the formation of the first gaseous planets to our own “pale blue dot,” all the while tracing the history of sound across the universe. But will there always be someone to hear it?

Vestige: This absorbing study of grief enters the mind of Lisa Elin, a woman dealing with the death of her husband, Erik. Digital fragments of their happy life together appear inside a void and eventually become entangled with haunting visions of her loss. Made in collaboration with the real Lisa Elin, Vestige is a deeply empathic experience — of memory and personal tragedy.