The Cannes 2024 Festival reveals its selection of immersive works: Wild Fang Films on the bill with 2 Luxembourg co-productions!

The Cannes 2024 Festival has just revealed the 8 projects of its Immersive Competition which includes collective virtual reality installations, mixed reality experiences and video mapping and holographic works.

The XR work THE ROAMING supported by the Film Fund Luxembourg is part of this competition. This immersive collective virtual reality experience is being co-produced in Luxembourg by the company Wild Fang Films (Hélène Walland and Christian Neuman) with France and Canada. Created by Mathieu Pradat, it transports participants into a shared virtual environment where they can interact with each other and their surroundings, offering an engaging experience that challenges the limits of virtual reality.

All the character movement work using motion capture was done with Luxembourg actors Anne Klein and Marianne Bourg. All the animation for the project was produced in the studios of Zeilt Productions in Foetz.

The Cannes Film Festival Immersive Competition is a new competition dedicated to immersive works, the first edition of which will be held from 15 to 24 May 2024 at the Cannes Cineum and the Université Côte d'Azur on the Georges Méliès campus. The prize for the best immersive work will be awarded at a closing ceremony on 23 May.

Six non-competitive works complete this immersive selection. They explore the evolution of the medium and draw parallels between virtual reality, virtual production, cinema and collective narrative. The work XR MISSING PICTURES is co-produced in Luxembourg by Wild Fang Films (Christian Neuman and Hélène Walland) with France, the United Kingdom and Taiwan, with the support of the Film Fund Luxembourg. It was directed by Clément Deneux and has been selected out of competition.