Bourne Identity director Doug Liman will unveil his upcoming XR thriller Asteroid in the Venice Film Festival’s immersive showcase.
Asteroid, which is due to launch on Google’s XR App later this year, was among 69 works announced for Venice Immersive on Wednesday.
Produced by Google’s 100 Zeros, a content initiative in partnership with Range Media Partners, the immersive short follows a group of strangers who risk it all by taking an old rocket to mine a near-earth asteroid for a chance at unimaginable wealth.
Launched in 2017, Venice Immersive is dedicated to the immersive arts and media and includes all forms of creative XR expression including immersive videos, virtual and mixed reality, virtual worlds and immersive installations.
Asteroid will be among 30 works making their world or international premieres in the Venice Immersive Competition, which metes out Grand Jury, Special Jury and Achievement awards.
This year’s jury will be presided over by U.S. writer and director Eliza McNitt, whose credits include the Emmy-nominated, Darren Aronofsky-produced VR Spheres, starring Millie Bobby Brown, Jessica Chastain and Patti Smith.
She will be joined by 2024 Venice Immersive winners: French Luxembourgish director and producer Gwenael François, whose VR work Oto’s Planet won the Special Jury Prize, and French director Boris Labbé, whose Ito Meikyū won the Grand Prize.
Further Venice Immersive Competition titles include Face Jumping, by Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman, co-founders of games studio Tender Claws which previously made waves with Stranger Things VR (2024) and Virtual Virtual Reality (2017).
The interactive, eye-tracked VR experience – which enables players to swap perspectives by making eye contact with characters, animals, and objects – premiered in SXSW earlier this year.
The competition also features Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel’s The Exploding Girl VR, which previously competed in Cannes’ immersive program in May, and UK work The Time Before by Leo Metcalf and Michael Golembewski, probing the mechanics of childhood memory, which debuted in the UK’s Raindance festival.
The entire selection will be showcased from August 27 to September 6 on the Venice Immersive Island, situated on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, just a three-minute vaporetto ride from festival’s main Lido di Venezia hub.
Another 34 projects will also play Out of Competition under the Best of Experiences and Best of Worlds banners.
Best of Experiences showcases 11 works that have been making waves since the last edition of the Venice Immersive.
They include Submerged, the first scripted short film captured in Apple Immersive Video, written and directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Edward Berger, and Chloé Rochereuil’s D-Day: The Camera Soldier, an interactive documentary delves exploring the untold story of a World War II D-Day combat cameraman, the late Richard Taylor.
The Best Of Worlds sidebar is devoted to 23 projects created by independent artists from all over the world on the VRChat social platform. Venice Immersive will also showcase another five projects developed under the auspices of the Biennale College Cinema – Immersive training program.
VENICE IMMERSIVE LINE-UP
In Competition
LA MAGIE OPÉRA
by JONATHAN ASTRUC
France / 25’ / installation, virtual reality
1968
by ROSE BOND
USA / 9’ / installation, virtual reality
THE SAD STORY OF THE LITTLE MOUSE WHO WANTED TO BECOME SOMEBODY
by NICOLAS BOURNIQUEL
France, Germany, Belgium / 30’ / virtual reality
CREATION OF THE WORLDS
by KRISTINA BUOŽYTĖ, VITALIJUS ŽUKAS
Lithuania / 28’ / virtual reality
FACE JUMPING
by DANNY CANNIZZARO, SAMANTHA GORMA
USA / 25’ / virtual reality
8PM AND THE CAT
by MINHYUK CHE
South Korea / 14’ / virtual reality
THE CLOUDS ARE TWO THOUSAND METERS UP
by SINGING CHEN
Taipei, Germany / 50’ / installation, virtual reality
DARK ROOMS
by MADS DAMSBO, ANNE SOFIE STEEN SVERDRUP
Denmark, Germany, Taipei / 35’ / installation, virtual reality
THE GREAT ORATOR
by DANIEL ERNST
The Netherlands / 40’ / virtual reality
HEARTBEAT – SON CŒUR A TROUVÉ SA CADENCE DANS LE SILENCE DES RENCONTRES
by FANNY FORTAGE
France / 10’ / immersive installation
THE BIG CUBE
by MENGHUI HUANG
Finland, Belgium, China, Portugal / 7’ / virtual reality
MIRAGE
by NAIMA KARIM, ALEENA HANIF
Saudi Arabia, The Netherlands, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK / 8’ / virtual reality, haptics
REFLECTIONS OF LITTLE RED DOT
by CHLOÉ LEE
Germany, USA / 40’ / installation, mixed reality
THE SHADOW
by BLANCA LI, EDITH CANAT DE CHIZY
France, Taipei / 60’ / installation, mixed reality, live performance
ASTEROID
by DOUG LIMAN
USA, Canada / 30’ / installation, virtual reality
THE TIME BEFORE
by LEO METCALF, MICHAEL GOLEMBEWSKI
UK / 15’ / virtual reality
DANSE DANSE DANSE – MATISSE (DANCE DANCE DANCE – MATISSE)
by AGNÈS MOLIA, GORDON
France / 10’ / virtual reality
LESS THAN 5GR OF SAFFRON
by NÉGAR MOTEVALYMEIDANSHAH
France / 7’ / virtual reality
EMPATHY CREATURES
by MÉLODIE MOUSSET
Switzerland / 10’ / installation, virtual reality
LA FILLE QUI EXPLOSE VR (THE EXPLODING GIRL VR)
by CAROLINE POGGI, JONATHAN VINEL
France / 20’ / virtual reality
BLUR
by CRAIG QUINTERO, PHOEBE GREENBERG
Canada, Taipei / 50’ / installation, virtual reality, live performance
BLACK CATS & CHEQUERED FLAGS
by ELISABETTA ROTOLO, SIOBHAN MCDONNELL
Italy / 20’ / installation, mixed reality, virtual reality
EDDIE AND I
by MAYA SHEKEL
Israel, Germany, France / 25’ / virtual reality
COLLECTIVE BODY
by SARAH SILVERBLATT-BUSER
France, USA / 20’ / installation, virtual reality
ALIEN PERSPECTIVE
by JUNG AH SUH, CRISTINA RAMBALDI
USA, Italy / 15’ / installation, virtual reality
THE GREAT ESCAPE
by JOREN VANDENBROUCKE
Belgium, Luxembourg / 20’ / virtual reality
A LONG GOODBYE
by KATE VOET, VICTOR MAES
Belgium / 35’ / installation, virtual reality
IF YOU SEE A CAT
by ATSUSHI WADA
Japan / 37’ / virtual reality
MULAN2125
by MO HUANG
China / 56’ / virtual reality
SENSE OF NOWHERE
by HSIN-HSUAN YEH
Taipei, Finland, Belgium, Portugal, France / 30’ / virtual reality
Out of Competition
(international selection of the best works that have been released or premiered elsewhere since the last edition of the Venice International Film Festival)
Best of Experiences
WALL TOWN WONDERS
by IVES AGEMANS
Belgium / 30’ / mixed reality
ONE TRUE PATH, PART 1
By BALTHAZAR AUXIETRE
France/ 90’ / virtual reality
SUBMERGED
By EDWARD BERGER FOR APPLE
USA/ 17’ / immersive film
GHOST TOWN
by FIREPROOF GAMES
UK / 300’ / virtual reality
ADVENTURE: ICE DIVE
by CHARLOTTE MIKKELBORG FOR APPLE AND ATLANTIC STUDIOS
US, Iceland / 15’ / immersive film
ANCESTORS
by STEYE HALLEMA
The Netherlands / 70’ / immersive installation
LILI
by NAVID KHONSARI, VASSILIKI KHONSARI
US / 30’ / immersive installation
ON THE OTHER EARTH
by WAYNE MCGREGOR
UK / 50’ / immersive installation, mixed reality
THE MIDNIGHT WALK
by OLOV REDMALM, KLAUS LYNGELED
Sweden, Brazil, India / 360’ / virtual reality
D-DAY: THE CAMERA SOLDIER
by CHLOÉ ROCHEREUIL
France, USA / 22’ / virtual reality
CONSTANTINOPOLIAD
by SISTER SYLVESTER, NADAH EL SHAZLY
UK, Greece / 55’ / immersive installation
Best of Worlds
NATURA’S QUEENDOM by Anders Fray, Starheart
CYBERLOVE ｜ A7 by Artsy Glitch
UNCANNY LOUNGE by Christopher Lane Davis, Rick Treweek
RITUAL by DrMorro
THE COLONY – FLAT 804 by Glory Nya
EXHIBITION ⁄ BACK SEEING by haruki_haru
WHAT IS VIRTUAL ART – VOLUME 1 by Jessien
THE REALITY OF HOPE by Joe Hunting
NEURON by Juice…
YORUTOUGE by mikkabouzu / Kikuo
FLAT EARTH by Niko Lang
EXPERIENCE by NOOTAU
POWDERGAME by Pema Malling
LIGHT AQUARIUM by phi16
BREAK 15˸ ARCANUM by PK / rekluma
VENT. by Premium²
FZMZ POINT ZERO by ReeeznD
SCALE JOURNEY by S_Asagiri
SHINONOME BALLOON – by sakanaplus
DRACULA’S CASTLE by Tanner White
MIRAGE by TOKYO WAIYOZ
NEOWORLDS by Widget365
FLASHING WARNING by xlxxl
Biennale College Cinema – Immersive – Out of Competition
RI-LANCIA LUIGI BROGLIO (RE-LAUNCHING LUIGI BROGLIO)
by VINCENZO CAVALLO
Italy / 33’ / installation, virtual reality
Supported by the grant BCC Immersive 9th edition (2024/2025)
OUT OF NOWHERE
by KRIS HOFMANN, ANDREAS WUTHE
Austria, Germany / 10’ / virtual reality
HAPPY SHADOW
by PEI-YING LIN, TING-RUEI SU
Taipei / 25’ / installation, virtual reality
MNEMOSYNE
by WUER
Japan, China / 35’ / installation, virtual reality
FIRST VIRTUAL SUIT
by KAZUKI YUHARA
Japan / 35’ / installation, virtual reality
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