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ITW Jake Oleson (CURRENTS) "I tell stories using tools I'm passionate about, in a way that feels different... and sometimes uncomfortable.” - Jake Oleson (CURRENTS)

2025 Flashback/ “I wanted to demonstrate as a filmmaker that powerful immersive storytelling is within reach” – Jake Oleson (CURRENTS), by Dane Christensen #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling #SXSW2025

CALL! Premiere your XR project in front of press, industry and enthusiastic audiences at the @sxsw.com  Film & TV Festival.

🗓️  First Deadline: Aug 26
🗓️ Second: Sept 16
🗓️ Final: Oct 1

https://xrmust.com/all-events_/sxsw-2026/

NEXT! @melbfilmfest.bsky.social‬'s program of extended reality (XR) experiences presents cutting-edge works that push the boundaries of storytelling through full-body immersion.

🗓️ Aug 12 - 24

https://xrmust.com/all-events_/miff-xr-melbourne-international-film-festival-2025/

ITW Feel the Sound - Luke Kemp (Barbican Immersive) “A focus on cross-arts programming, with immersive being the sixth art form” - Luke Kemp (Barbican Immersive)

2025 Flashback/ “A focus on cross-arts programming, with immersive being the sixth art form” – Luke Kemp (Barbican Immersive), by Agnese Pietrobon #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling

NOW! Throughout the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival (6–16 August 2025), the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) presents a dual selection of immersive experiences in the Cabina.

https://www.giff.ch/en/giff_unlimited/giff-unlimited-locarno-film-festival-2/

REFLECTIONS OF LITTLE RED DOT, by Chloé Lee (SXSW 2025) REFLECTIONS OF LITTLE RED DOT: SXSW 2025 Jury Awarded open-world documentaryA mixed reality experience with heart and soul by Chloé Lee

2025 Flashback/ REFLECTIONS OF LITTLE RED DOT: an open-world mixed reality documentary with heart and soul, by Danielle Giroux #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling

Back from Thessaloniki: hosting the first Agora XR Lab Back from Thessaloniki: hosting the first Agora XR Lab / Four creative teams gathered in the workshop room of a Greek youth centre...

2025 Flashback/ Back from Thessaloniki: hosting the first Agora XR Lab, by Karen Cirillo #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling

CALL! How to submit a film or project to CPH:DOX 2026, INTER:ACTIVE: Virtual Reality works and interactive installations.

🗓️ Deadline: Sept 1
🗓️ Late Deadline: Nov 1

https://xrmust.com/all-events_/copenhagen-international-documentary-film-festival-cphdox-2026/

ITW Cameron Kostopoulos (IN THE CURRENT OF BEING) “I believe that the best immersive pieces can somehow embrace the limitations of something” - Cameron Kostopoulos (IN THE CURRENT OF BEING)

2025 Flashback/ “I believe that the best immersive pieces can somehow embrace the limitations of the medium” – Cameron Kostopoulos (IN THE CURRENT OF BEING), by Dane Christensen #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling

NEXT! Visioni VR @ Festival Internazionale del Documentario Visioni dal Mondo 2025

🗓️ Sept. 11-14

https://xrmust.com/all-events_/visioni-vr-festival-internazionale-del-documentario-visioni-dal-mondo-2025/

NOW! JOSEPH ROULEAU - FINAL ENCORE @memmtl.bsky.social‬ – Centre des mémoires montréalaises

🗓️ July 15 - Sept 1

https://xrmust.com/all-events_/joseph-rouleau-final-encore-mem-centre-des-memoires-montrealaises/

WORLDING 2025 at MIT Media Lab: “We want to learn from you” WORLDING 2025 is an experimental incubator empowering a select cohort of creators and XR productions, a deeper look into..

2025 Flashback/ From the MIT Media Lab x WORLDING 2025: “We want to learn from you” by Danielle Giroux #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling

NOW! Epicentro @ Guanajuato International Film Festival 2025

🗓️ July 25 - Aug. 3

https://xrmust.com/all-events_/epicentro-guanajuato-international-film-festival-2025/

“A growing interest in telling big stories through a language that’s much closer to cinema than in the past” – Liz Rosenthal, Michel Reilhac (Venice Immersive 2025)

https://xrmust.com/xrmagazine/liz-rosenthal-michel-reilhac-venice-immersive-2025/

XR Creation: can we break free from Big Tech? XR Creation: can we break free from Big Tech? Given the current economic tensions and geopolitical context, dependence on Big Tech...

2025 Flashback/ XR Creation: can we break free from Big Tech? by Adrien Cornelissen #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling

ITW Violeta Ayala (HUK, THE JAGUARESS) “We are living a technological revolution” - Violeta Ayala (HUK, THE JAGUARESS @ CPH:DOX Inter:Active) / "With CPH:DOX coming to a close...

2025 Flashback/ “We are living a technological revolution” – Violeta Ayala (HUK, THE JAGUARESS @ CPH:DOX Inter:Active), by Agnese Pietrobon #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling

NEXT! Throughout the 78th edition of the Locarno Film Festival (6–16 August 2025), the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) presents a dual selection of immersive experiences in the Cabina.

https://www.giff.ch/en/giff_unlimited/giff-unlimited-locarno-film-festival-2/

NEXT! VR Cinema: Just for You Trilogy @PHI, A series of virtual reality films that blur the line between dream and reality.

🗓️ July 23 - Sept 7

https://xrmust.com/all-events_/vr-cinema-just-for-you-trilogy-phi/

Exploring Expanded Narratives, with Nancy Baker Cahill Exploring Expanded Narratives: A Conversation with Nancy Baker Cahill / I encountered Nancy Baker Cahill’s work through a seminar at CalArts

2025 Flashback/ Exploring Expanded Narratives: A Conversation with Nancy Baker Cahill, by Zelia ZZ TAN #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling

ITW Blanca Li (L'OMBRE) "Notre intention, avec Édith Canat de Chizy, est de garder le spectateur au contact de l’interprète" - Blanca Li (L'OMBRE)

“Our intention, with Édith Canat de Chizy, is to keep the audience close to the performer.” – Blanca Li (THE SHADOW) @ircam.bsky.social‬

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LAST CALL! Undershed: Call for Immersive Artwork @wshed.bsky.social‬: apply to an exhibition themed around the question: "What does home mean to you?"

🗓️ Deadline: July 20

https://www.watershed.co.uk/jobs-opportunities/2025/07/undershed-call-immersive-artwork

ITW Mark Atkin (CPH:DOX Inter:Active 2025) “Creating a space where artists can engage in critical conversations” - Mark Atkin (CPH:DOX Inter:Active 2025)

2025 Flashback/ “Creating a space where artists can engage in critical conversations” – Mark Atkin (CPH:DOX Inter:Active 2025), by Agnese Pietrobon #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling

ITW Liz Rosenthal (Power to the Pixel) "Executive production as an act of curation" - Liz Rosenthal (Power to the Pixel) / After the recent run at The Observatory in London ..

2025 Flashback/ “Executive production as an act of curation” – Liz Rosenthal (Power to the Pixel), by Agnese Pietrobon #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling

PRESS RELEASE/ VIVE Arts, Musée de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris and Atlas V to Debut PLAYING WITH FIRE, a New Immersive Concert Experience with acclaimed Pianist Yuja Wang 🎼

https://xrmust.com/xrmagazine/vive-arts-philharmonie-atlasv-yuja-wang/

NOW! Portals of Solitude: Virtual Realities from Taiwan @ Museum of the Moving Image, with guest curator Michaela Ternasky-Holland.

🗓️ Until July 27

https://xrmust.com/all-events_/portals-of-solitude-virtual-realities-from-taiwan-museum-of-the-moving-image/

NEW INTERVIEW! “A growing interest in telling big stories through a language that’s much closer to cinema than in the past” – Liz Rosenthal, Michel Reilhac (#VeniceImmersive 2025), by Agnese Pietrobon #Venezia82

https://xrmust.com/xrmagazine/liz-rosenthal-michel-reilhac-venice-immersive-2025/

“Form follows people… and the stories they want to tell” – Stephan Bernardes, Lukas Koll (Arkanum Pictures), by @agnesepietrobon.bsky.social‬ (from @newimageshub.bsky.social‬)

https://xrmust.com/xrmagazine/stephan-bernardes-lukas-koll-arkanum-pictures/

Editorial⎜Innovation: 104factory opens its doors On December 6 and 7, 2024, 104factory opened its doors for the 8th consecutive year of the Open Factory. A rare opportunity ...

2025 Flashback/ Editorial: Innovation: 104factory opens its doors, by Catherine Ertzscheid #Immersive #Creative #Storytelling

A look at TRACES : THE GRIEF PROCESSOR, and the invisible pain that we carry, by Danielle Giroux. #SXSW2025 

https://xrmust.com/xrmagazine/traces-the-grief-processor-couzin-films/

NOW! To coincide with the Avignon Festival, Le Grenier à Sel presents the 6th edition of AIRES NUMÉRIQUES, a program dedicated to immersive and digital forms in the performing and visual arts.

🗓️ July 12-18

https://xrmust.com/all-events_/aires-numeriques-6/