A Machine for Viewing at the MIFF.
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Directed by Charlie Shackleton, Richard Misek and Melbourne based Oscar Raby, the experimental hybrid video essay uses virtual reality to pull the audience into the images, instead of merely inviting them to sit down in a movie theatre full of distractions. Inspired by filmmaker Peter Kubelka’s “machine for viewing” theatre, this unique work invites us to ponder what it means to ‘watch’ a piece of cinema, with three episodes totalling a 30-min runtime.
Participatory iterations of the work premiered at Sundance and the International Documentary Film Festival, where audience members in cinemas were invited to wear the VR headset and step into the film. Now it has been reimagined as a digital offering, and this instalment of the evolving work will exhibit a single cinema patron’s unique experience of A Machine for Viewing (filmed at the Astor theatre) in a global online premiere which will be exclusive to MIFF YouTube channel from Thursday 8 April at 6pm, kicking off a massive MIFF season which is just around the corner!
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