Line-up announced for LFF Expanded Programme of Immersive Art and Extended Reality Works
BRINGING TOGETHER 14 IMMERSIVE PROJECTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, INCLUDING THREE WORLD PREMIERES, PRESENTED ACROSS MULTIPLE LONDON VENUES, INCLUDING BARGEHOUSE AT OXO TOWER WHARF, GALLERY@OXO, OUTERNET, LONDON AND SCIENCE GALLERY, LONDON.
BFI London Film Festival (4 – 15 October) in partnership with American Express is excited to announce the line-up for LFF Expanded, the Festival’s programme of Immersive Art and Extended Realities, running from 6 – 22 October 2023. The BFI London Film Festival celebrates the moving image in all its forms – from shorts and features to television and immersive – and LFF Expanded invites audience to explore and experience these powerful new ways of telling stories on screen.
Featuring British and international artists, filmmakers and creative teams, such as Shirin Neshat, Tania de Montaigne, Bjarne Melgaard, Karen Palmer, Darren Emerson and Anagram, this year’s programme offers audiences a huge diversity of approaches to storytelling at the cutting edge of screen technology. Across the programme, curated by the BFI London Film Festival’s XR and Immersive Programme Lead, Ulrich Schrauth, audiences are invited to let their curiosity reign supreme and go beyond the limits of their imagination.
LFF EXPANDED 2023 IMMERSIVE ART AND XR PROGRAMME:
COLORED - UK PREMIERE: 6 – 22 Oct (closed 16 Oct) | Bargehouse | 32min | Lead artist(s): Pierre-Alain Giraud, Stéphane, Foenkinos, Tania de Montaigne
THE FURY - UK PREMIERE: 6 – 22 Oct (closed 16 Oct) | Bargehouse | 22min | Lead artist(s): Shirin Neshat
SHIRIN NESHAT: THE FURY: 7 October – 11 November |Goodman Gallery London
LETTERS FROM DRANCY - UK PREMIERE: 6 – 22 Oct (closed 16 Oct) | Bargehouse | 22min | Lead artist(s): Darren Emerson.
MURALS - UK PREMIERE: 6 – 22 Oct (closed 16 Oct) | Bargehouse | 9min | Lead artist(s): Alex Topaller, Daniel Shapiro,Artem Ivanenko
CONSENSUS GENTIUM - WINNER OF SXSW 2023 AWARD FOR INNOVATION XR EXPERIENCE, 6 – 22 Oct (closed 16 Oct) | Bargehouse | 25min | Lead artist(s): Karen Palmer
FORAGER - UK PREMIERE: 6 – 22 Oct (closed 16 Oct) | Bargehouse | 8min | Lead artist(s): Winslow Porter, Elie Zananiri
THE IMAGINARY FRIEND - UK PREMIERE: 6 – 22 Oct (closed 16 Oct) | Bargehouse | 26min | Lead artist(s): Steye Hallema
FLOW - UK PREMIERE: 6 – 22 Oct (closed 16 Oct) | Bargehouse | 16min | Lead artist(s): Adriaan Lokman
THINGS FALL APART: a musical installation in Mixed Reality - UK PREMIERE, 6 – 22 Oct (closed 16 Oct) | Bargehouse | 25min | Lead artist(s): CyberRäuber
HAUNTED HOTEL - a melodrama in augmented reality, 4 - 9 October | Gallery@Oxo | 20min | Lead artist(s): Guy Maddin
MY TRIP 2023 - WORLD PREMIERE: MON 9 OCT 21:00–23:30 OUTERNET, MON 16 OCT – 27 NOV (EVERY MONDAY), 18:00–23:30, HERE at the Outernet | 7min | Lead artist(s): Bjarne Melgaard
GHOSTS OF SOLID AIR - WORLD PREMIERE: 4 - 22 October | Trafalgar Square | approx. 60min | Lead artist(s): Amy Rose
FLEETING FIGURES - WORLD PREMIERE: 4 - 22 October | South Bank (BFI Southbank to Bargehouse) | approx. 60min | Lead artist(s): Åsa
ELSEWHERE IN INDIA: 7 October, 15:00 – 16:30 | Science Gallery London | 60min | Lead artist(s): Murthovic, Thiruda
Kristy Matheson, BFI London Film Festival Director, said: “I’m so excited to dive into these spectacular worlds with audiences this October. This year boasts such an incredible array of storytellers from the wondrous sensory experience of Forager to the privilege of encountering a new work from the great Iranian artist-filmmaker Shirin Neshat, there’s so much for us all to explore atour new home at Bargehouse and across the city.”
Further Information: BFI London Film Festival