Each year, IndieWire partners with MIT’s Open Documentary Lab to offer a deeper look at Sundance’s New Frontiers section. Here, Samuel Mendez explores several projects that tackled climate change.
You can be a mushroom carrying out bioremediation. You can be a bug sliding down an esophagus. You can even be yourself, watching your breath leave your body. The New Frontier lineup at Sundance 2020 shows the power of virtual reality to create playful experiences of agency in the face of climate change.
A standout from this year’s festival is “Hypha,” a beautifully inventive Vr experience that let viewers act as mushrooms sent down from outer space to save the Earth. The viewer transforms from spore to mycelium, with branching, stringy limbs that decontaminate soil, absorb water, and hug tree roots. In the end, the viewer turns into a familiar mushroom fruitbody, with its cap and gills obstructing their...
You can be a mushroom carrying out bioremediation. You can be a bug sliding down an esophagus. You can even be yourself, watching your breath leave your body. The New Frontier lineup at Sundance 2020 shows the power of virtual reality to create playful experiences of agency in the face of climate change.
A standout from this year’s festival is “Hypha,” a beautifully inventive Vr experience that let viewers act as mushrooms sent down from outer space to save the Earth. The viewer transforms from spore to mycelium, with branching, stringy limbs that decontaminate soil, absorb water, and hug tree roots. In the end, the viewer turns into a familiar mushroom fruitbody, with its cap and gills obstructing their...
- 2/4/2020
- by Samuel R. Mendez
- Indiewire
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