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NYFF54 CONVERGENCE EVENTS AND DESCRIPTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n Experiences and Installations<\/strong><\/p>\n Cardboard City<\/em> <\/p>\n EKO<\/em> <\/p>\n Giant<\/em> <\/p>\n Late Shift<\/em> <\/p>\n Lives in Transit<\/em> <\/p>\n Priya\u2019s Mirror<\/em> <\/p>\n Ricerca VR<\/em> <\/p>\n Sherlock Holmes & The Internet of Things<\/em> <\/p>\n Sound Hunters<\/em> <\/p>\n SPECIAL TALKS<\/strong><\/p>\n ILMxLAB<\/em> <\/p>\n The Psychology of Storytelling: Lindsay Doran<\/em> <\/p>\n The State of the (Interactive) Art<\/em> <\/p>\n Traveling While Black: Special Preview Event<\/em> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n FILM SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER<\/strong><\/p>\n The Film Society of Lincoln Center is devoted to supporting the art and elevating the craft of cinema. The only branch of the world-renowned arts complex Lincoln Center to shine a light on the everlasting yet evolving importance of the moving image, this nonprofit organization was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international film. Via year-round programming and discussions; its annual New York Film Festival; and its publications, including Film Comment, the U.S.\u2019s premier magazine about films and film culture, the Film Society endeavors to make the discussion and appreciation of cinema accessible to a broader audience, as well as to ensure that it will remain an essential art form for years to come.<\/p>\n The Film Society receives generous, year-round support from American Airlines, The New York Times, HBO, The Kobal Collection, Variety, Loews Regency Hotel, Row NYC Hotel, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts.<\/p>\n Support for the New York Film Festival is also generously provided by Jaeger-LeCoultre, the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n For more information about the New York Film Festival, visit filmlinc.org\/NYFF. For the latest news, subscribe to the festival\u2019s newsletter, follow the festival on Facebook and Twitter, and use the hashtag: #NYFF.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\nKiira Benzing, Stina Hamlin
\nVirtual Reality & Augmented Reality, 2016, USA, 3m
\nCities are in a constant state of flux, waxing and waning along with their populations. Many consider these cycles of growth and decline part of the appeal of urban living, but change has consequences for those not able to keep up. Such is the case with the subjects of Cardboard City, a community of artists forced out of their Gowanus studios due to skyrocketing rents and runaway develo pment. Blending virtual reality, augmented reality, and user-generated content, the piece is a hands-on interactive installation that uses these artists\u2019 stories as a jumping-off point, before inviting viewers to become creators and add buildings, memories, and stories to an ever evolving cityscape.
\nElinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, October 1 & 2<\/p>\n
\nInterlude, Sandeep Parikh, Casey Donahue, Daniel Scheinert, Billy Chew
\nInteractive Video Installation, 2016, USA
\nInteractive video projects often weigh mechanics against storytelling, creating an unbalanced final product: it\u2019s a technical achievement or a quality story, but rarely both. EKO, a new video platform that responds to the viewer\u2019s input, may finally have balanced the scales. Audiences are invited to experience a trio of interactive shorts built on this new platform: The Gleam, an interactive documentary about a small town paper; That Moment When, a comedy that asks the viewer to navigate a battery of awkward conversations; and Now\/Then, a Rashomon-inspired story focused on the various perspectives swirling around a relationship on the rocks.
\nElinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, October 1 & 2<\/p>\n
\nMilica Zec, Winslow Turner Porter III
\nVirtual Reality, 2016, USA, 10m
\nVirtual reality has been so central to recent discussions of interactive storytelling that it\u2019s easy to forget that the form is still relatively new. With the ability to drop the viewer into an immersive environment, it\u2019s no wonder that early conversations about VR stories focus on the empathy between audiences and subjects. This is used to startling effect in Giant. Transported to a basement shelter in an active war zone, we watch\u2014and listen\u2014as parents try to distract their daughter from the thunder of bombs. This is more than a film rendered in 360 degrees; it\u2019s a testament to the power of this nascent form of storytelling.
\nElinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, October 1 & 2<\/p>\n
\nBaptiste Planche, Tobias Weber
\nAudience-Directed Narrative Feature, 2016, Switzerland, 80m
\nAre games and films on a collision course? It\u2019s a question asked every time emergent technologies broaden what\u2019s possible with a little code, a story, and the will to blend the two. Yet while cinematic games are commonplace, game-like films are not. The high-octane thriller Late Shift aims to change that. A parking attendant\u2019s world is turned upside down when he\u2019s forced to take part in a brazen heist, and the audience makes choices to shape the story via an app. The branching narrative is flawlessly executed, creating an in-theater experience as enjoyable for the casual viewer as the hardcore \u201cplayer.\u201d U.S. Premiere
\nHoward Gilman Theater, Sunday October 2, 5:30 pm<\/p>\n
\nGlobal Lives Project
\nVideo Installation, 2015\/2016, USA
\nThe San Francisco\u2013based Global Lives Project produces long-form documentaries that capture the rich diversity of human experience and engender cross-cultural dialogue and understanding. Each 24-hour film provides a window onto a single day in the life of its subject. This latest iteration of the project, Lives in Transit, focuses on ten individuals who in their own ways are responsible for moving people and products throughout the world. Presented as a large-scale video installation, Lives in Transit is more than an exploration of ten unique people\u2014it is a dynamic ground-level examination of our hyper-connected world. World Premiere
\nWalter Reade Theater\u2019s Furman Gallery, October 1-16<\/p>\n
\nRam Devineni, Dan Goldman, Paromita Vohra, Shubra Prakash, Vikas Menon
\nAugmented Reality Installation, 2016, USA\/India
\nLaunched in 2014, Priya\u2019s Shakti was a first-of-its-kind fusion of augmented reality, comic books, and social engagement. The story of Priya, a rape survivor and modern-day superhero, shattered taboos that exist in India on the subject of violence against women. The second volume of this ongoing series, Priya\u2019s Mirror sees the heroine joining forces with acid attack survivors to take on the demon king Ahankar. As with its predecessor, Priya\u2019s Mirror makes use of augmented reality to bring the 2D world of the comic to vivid life and unlock a number of interactive story elements. World Premiere
\nWalter Reade Theater\u2019s Furman Gallery, October 1-16<\/p>\n
\nYo-Yo Lin, Will Cherry, Steve Dabal, Elle Callahan, Michael Matchen
\nVirtual Reality, 2016, USA, 15m
\nIt\u2019s no coincidence that we are so moved by stories about quests. The search\u2014for love, for forgiveness, for meaning\u2014is an essential aspect of our humanity. In Ricerca (Italian for \u201csearch\u201d), a man scours his memories for something lost, traversing a lush world rendered with a vibrant mix of 2D and stop-motion animation. Originally presented as a large-scale video installation, the reimagined piece employs virtual reality to extend its life beyond the gallery space, raising a compelling question: what will the relationship be between VR and the world of fine art?
\nElinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, October 1 & 2<\/p>\n
\nLance Weiler, Nick Fortugno
\nImmersive Storytelling Experience, 2016, USA
\nWhile one imagines that real criminal investigators hope for the shortest distance between crime and conviction, readers of detective fiction care more about the journey: the more twists the better. The same could be said for this ever-evolving storytelling experiment. Since its launch, participants from 20 countries have taken part in a project that uses the emergent web of connected digital devices to investigate mysteries with the world\u2019s favorite consulting detective. For the second year, NYFF invites audiences to step into Holmes\u2019s shoes to solve a string of crimes across Lincoln Center\u2019s campus.
\nElinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, October 1 (1:00 pm, 2:30 pm, 4:00 pm)<\/p>\n
\nFran\u00e7ois Le Gall, Nicolas Blies
\nImmersive Storytelling Experience, 2015, France
\nLong before Lawrence Lessig, Austin Kleon, and Malcolm Gladwell each dubbed this the Age of the Remix, T. S. Eliot wrote, \u201cImmature poets imitate; mature poets steal.\u201d With Sound Hunters, the audience makes music by recording and remixing the sounds of the world around them. Created by Fran\u00e7ois Le Gall and Nicolas Blies, this multifaceted project does more than make music from the audio of everyday life; each uploaded sound is a window onto its author\u2019s world, and every song created by the Sound Hunter community is as much a remix of distinctive life experiences as of unique audio elements.
\nElinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, October 1 & 2<\/p>\n
\nHilmar Koch and Nick Rasmussen, ILMxLAB
\nFounded in 2015, ILMxLAB fuses the talents of Lucasfilm, Industrial Light and Magic, and Skywalker Sound to create a new, collaborative space to experiment with stories across all visual media platforms\u2014those we know well and those just being established. The lab encourages exploration, and, yes, even failure as a means for discovering new ways to tell and experience stories. Discovery is at the very heart of the lab\u2019s work. Hilmar Koch and Nick Rasmussen will share some of their personal discoveries from their journey so far and reflect on the promise and perils of working at the frontiers of storytelling.
\nSaturday, October 1, 4:00 pm<\/p>\n
\nOscar-nominated producer and studio executive Lindsay Doran brings more than 30 years of experience in the movie business to bear on this examination of what the field of Positive Psychology can teach us about the secrets of writing a satisfying movie\u2014and how our \u201cdeep-seated fear of the saber-tooth tiger\u201d keeps them secret. Doran has served as the President of United Artists and as the President of Sydney Pollack\u2019s Mirage Productions. Doran\u2019s first film credit was on the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. As a producer, her credits include Dead Again, Sense and Sensibility, Nanny McPhee, and Stranger Than Fiction.
\nMonday October 3, 2016, 6:30 pm<\/p>\n
\nStoryCode\u2019s Mike Knowlton, interactive theater director Michael Rau, filmmaker Ram Devineni, and more
\nThe NYC Transmedia Meetup was founded as a monthly gathering of creative professionals looking to discuss the emerging field of multi-platform storytelling. By 2011, the group had evolved from a loose confederation of storytellers into a community that would become known as StoryCode. That same year, NYFF launched its Convergence section. On the fifth anniversary of both programs, StoryCode cofounder Mike Knowlton and a panel of key players from the New York interactive scene\u2014 Convergence veterans, game designers, immersive theater directors, virtual reality producers, and interactive filmmakers\u2014reflect on where we\u2019ve been and imagine where we\u2019re headed.
\nSaturday October 1, 2:30 pm<\/p>\n
\nRoger Ross Williams, Bonnie Nelson Schwartz, Lina Srivastava, Yasmin Elayat
\nPublished in 1936, the Green Book became an essential tool for African American travelers. The book consisted of a coast-to-coast listing of bars, hotels, and other businesses that were black-friendly in the age of Jim Crow. Traveling While Black presents a contemporary exploration of the issues related to restricted movement in modern-day America with a suite of experiences including a traveling museum exhibit, virtual reality films, and live events. Academy Award\u2013winning director Roger Ross Williams will present a sneak peek of this compelling project, including a live performance, a teaser of the project\u2019s first VR piece, and a panel discussion.
\nTuesday, October 4, 6:30 pm<\/p>\n
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