Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• JESSICA DICKSON
• STEVEN C. CATON
• RAMYAR D. ROSSOUKH

Titel

MAKING VIRTUAL REALITY FILM: An Untimely View of Film Futures from (South) Africa

Ist Teil von

• Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity, 2021, p.181

Ort / Verlag

Duke University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• My first encounter with virtual reality (VR) was in Johannesburg in 2015. While in the early days of research on South Africa’s coproduction economy, wherein local filmmakers partner with foreign production companies to access certain tax incentives and international markets, I was told by a prominent South African producer that VR was about to take off in the film scene. Steven Markovitz—a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and known for producing features and short films with artists from across the African continent—had recently seen VR exhibitions at prestigious film festivals like Tribeca and