Fusing documentary-realism with magic-realism, and true and fictionalized stories with poetry and dreams. TAKING THE HORSE TO EAT JALEBIS / India (Director: Anamika Haksar, Screenwriters: Anamika Haksar, Lokesh Jain, Producer: Anamika Haksar) - The waft of kebabs blends with the memories of an Indo-Islamic culture, fusing and playing with the dreams and subconscious landscapes of a modern migrant community laboring hard with dignity and humor. Cast: Maraqueen Reznor, Jake Shears, iRAWniQ, JB Ghuman Jr., Mayhem Miller, Hillary Tuck. (Director and screenwriter: JB Ghuman, Jr., Producer: JB Ghuman, Jr.) - A visual-sonic journey meant to expand one’s consciousness and emotional capacity through hand-crafted art and multi-dimensional storytelling.
Cast: Taylor Unwin, Sandra Ruiz, Melissa Ferrari.Īquarela / United Kingdom, Germany (Director: Victor Kossakovsky, Screenwriters: Victor Kossakovsky, Aimara Reques, Producers: Aimara Reques, Heino Deckert, Sigrid Dyekjær) - A cinematic journey through the transformative beauty and raw power of water. The vivid choreography and score leave a lasting impression within one’s psyche created by giant, stunning, “liberated” 3D shadows. Pioneering the use of a non-digital, reinvented, pre-cinematic stereo imaging technique, the exquisite ensemble of dancers seems to do the impossible - reach out. (Director and screenwriter: Christine Marie, Producer: Nion McEvoy) - Visual intimacy, ontological form, in real-time. The 33 projects announced today include work from 10 countries. 6 were supported by Sundance Institute in development, whether through direct granting or residency Labs. Of the projects announced today, 48% are directed or led by one or more women, 39% were directed or led by one or more artist of color, and 9% by one or more people who identify as LGBTQIA. The dynamics of biodigital looping – digital platforms that begin and end by connecting with a human being who connects to that same platform – are being taken on by this year’s artists with gusto, as they pull visceral focus on what it means to be human on this transforming terrain.” Biodigital loops are terraforming and transmogrifying our world. Shari Frilot, Chief Curator, New Frontier, said “This year’s New Frontier is an explosion of experimentation, bearing a motherload of innovative custom tech that take us higher. These independent cross-media artists create new realities for, and with, their work - and the results inspire.” Robert Redford, President and Founder of Sundance Institute, said, “For over a decade, New Frontier has pushed the boundaries of the possible, illuminating the potential of technology and storytelling. Dedicated to work sitting at the “dynamic crossroads of film, art and technology,” New Frontier typically explores various forms of new media, including VR, AR, mixed reality and work implementing artificial intelligence.Īmongst the highlights are the first time, I believe, that the Magic Leap technology has appeared in a Sundance selection, here in a work co-created by the Royal Shakespeare Company Eminem taking you on a nighttime Detroit ride in VR the VR component of Roger Ross Williams’s multi-format Traveling While Black project painter turned VR artist Teek Mach’s Grisaille and new work from some of the field’s strongest artists and New Frontier veterans: Doug Aitken, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Chris Milk, Nonny de la Peña, Pipilotti Rist and Jennifer Steinkamp.
The Sundance Film Festival’s always-revelatory New Frontier section announced its 2019 lineup today.