Edition 2019

VR ARLES FESTIVAL

In its fourth year, the VR Arles Festival once again gives the floor to talented virtual artists working with immersive media. The festival consists of a large exhibition of virtual reality artworks, a conference day, workshops for kids, and a writing residency. Among the exhibitions on show at Couvent Saint-Césaire throughout the summer: Danish artist Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Re-Animated, a simulation of a post-Anthropocene world in which extinct species are “reanimated” virtually; HanaHana, a participatory work by artist Mélodie Mousset, making use of our bodies in a deeply transformative, funny, and sensitive collective experience. Photographer Olivier Cablat’s La Preuve de l’Existence des Zombies (Proof that Zombies Exist) is an augmented installation connecting print photography to the virtual image. We’re proud to present Traveling While Black, a powerful documentary work by Roger Ross Williams and Felix & Paul Studios, in which participants relive the restricted movements of African Americans during the darkest hours of racial segregation in the United States; and the dreamy world of Gloomy Eyes, a masterful animated narrative by Argentinians Jorge Tereso and Fernando Maldonado.

Discover the 2018 selection and the program on the website: vrarlesfestival.com

VR ARLES FESTIVAL 2019 PRIZE LIST
FICTIONS AWARD
7 Lives by Jan kounen
Production: Red Corner
VERSIONS AWARD
Traveling While Black by Roger Moss Williams, Asheya Nadarajah, Félix Lajeunesse & Paul Raphaël
Production: Félix & Paul Studios
VISIONS AWARD
Hanahana : Multi Bloom by Mélodie Mousset
JURY AWARD
Re-animated by Jakob Kudsk Steensen
Production: Erratic Animist

JURY 2019
Charlotte Rampling, Actress and President of the jury
Renaud Grand-Clément, Vice-President Le Point
Christopher Miles, Managing Director Palais de Tokyo
Paolo Moretti, Artistic Director of Directors’ Fortnight, Director Festival International du Film de La Roche-sur-Yon and Cinéma Le Concorde
Alia Ouabdesselam, Head of Strategic Partnerships, Cinema and Group Event BNP Paribas
Vincent Perez, Actor Director and Photographer
Céline Tricart, Director
Yukiko Yamagata, Acting Director for the Open Society Foundations Documentary Photography Project

OFFICIAL COMPETITION
1,2,3… BRUEGEL!
7 ALCHIMIES IN VIRTUAL REALITY
7 LIVES
ACCUSED N°2: WALTER SISULU
AFTERIMAGE FOR TOMORROW
AYAHUASCA, KOSMIK JOURNEY
BONFIRE
DREAMS OF THE JAGUAR’S DAUGHTER
EMERGENCE
FEVER
GLOOMY EYES: FIRST LIGHT
HANAHANA MULTI-BLOOM
L’INTELLIGENCE DE LA MAIN®
LUNA
PSYCHOSIS
RE-ANIMATED
TRAVELING WHILE BLACK

SPECIAL PRESENTATION
EVE, DANCE IS AN UNPLACEABLE PLACE
PROOF THAT ZOMBIES EXIST

A festival jointly established by BNP Paribas, the Rencontres d’Arles and Fisheye.
With support from EDF.

  • Institutional partners

    • République Française
    • Région Provence Alpes Côté d'Azur
    • Département des Bouches du Rhône
    • Arles
    • Le Centre des monuments nationaux est heureux de soutenir les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles en accueillant des expositions dans l’abbaye de Montmajour
  • Main partners

    • Fondation LUMA
    • BMW
    • SNCF
    • Kering
  • Media partners

    • Arte
    • Lci
    • Konbini
    • Le Point
    • Madame Figaro
    • France Culture