At Locarno75, the old projection booth on the Piazza Grande becomes once again the theatre for an experience on the edge of film and technology. Together with the Locarno Film Festival, August from 3 to 13, a free double program of six exceptional immersive works with day am to pm and night pm to am sessions.
An experimental deciphering in VR of Arthur C. This film allows viewers to immerse themselves in a 3D space that echoes the futuristic predictions of a visionary humanist scientist. A total work imagined by Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, Space Odyssey is the object of a particular cult. Here it becomes the vehicle of an immersive and interstellar journey to the heart of cinema, its photograms, its night and lights. An immense tetrahedron that will soon break up to scatter and deliver a mysterious message through its change of form.
In a dimly lit room filled with mist, time seems to stand still as a group of men explore their sexuality. Between dream and awakening, the film plunges into an unexpected experience and takes a poetic look at desire. Crime scene. Individuals in protective suits in a botanical garden are looking for inanimate, naked bodies. Luxuriance of the plants, coldness of the neon lights, paleness of the flesh. Then the ritual begins.
This strange thriller composed of real shots opens up a space of real virtual cinema. Painted directly on the walls of his house, Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya refers to Greek mythology, when King Cronos devoured each of his children to counter the prediction that he would be overthrown by one of his sons.
Saturnism is an immersion on a human scale in one of the darkest and most haunting paintings in the history of art, where the fear of losing power drives one to madness.
