{"id":15657,"date":"2017-05-03T21:43:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T21:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giff.mx\/?p=15657"},"modified":"2017-05-03T22:48:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T22:48:50","slug":"first-details-revealed-from-the-virtual-reality-short-film-carne-y-arena-flesh-and-sand-by-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-and-emmanuel-lubezki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/first-details-revealed-from-the-virtual-reality-short-film-carne-y-arena-flesh-and-sand-by-alejandro-gonzalez-inarritu-and-emmanuel-lubezki\/","title":{"rendered":"First details revealed from the Virtual Reality short film &#8220;Carne y Arena (Flesh and Sand)&#8221; by Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu and Emmanuel Lubezki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is the first virtual reality project to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival Official Selection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Academy-Award winners Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu and Emmanuel Lubezki have joined forces once again to create an experimental virtual reality instalation called \u201cFlesh and Sand (virtually present, physically invisible)\u201d. This six-and-a-half minute experience is the first virtual reality project selected for the Cannes Film Festival&#8217;s Official Selection in its 70th edition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The film explores the human conditions of undocumented immigrants trying to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. According to the project&#8217;s description: Based on real-life accounts, the superficial lines between subject and spectator are blurred and tied together, allowing individuals to walk in an extensive space and live through a piece of the journeys of these refugees. &#8220;Flesh and Sand&#8221; uses the latest in virtual reality technology which has never been used to create a luminous narrative space with human characters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, who has shown most of his filography in the Cannes festival, returns with the first film he&#8217;s made since he won his second consecutive Directing Oscar for The Revenant, setting the stage for the use of VR technology. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Congratulations to our 2010 GIFF tributee for gambling on new technologies and looking for new ways to tell stories in the virtual reality format.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academy-Award winners Alejandro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1rritu and Emmanuel Lubezki have joined forces once again to create an experimental virtual reality instalation called \u201cFlesh and Sand (virtually present, physically invisible)\u201d.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[640],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15670,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15657\/revisions\/15670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/giff.mx\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}