[exhibit] “CARNE y ARENA” by Alejandro G. Iñárritu – Mexican Academy Award® winner // Richmond
Experience a groundbreaking & immersive virtual reality experience by Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Based on true accounts, CARNE y ARENA allows visitors in Richmond Waterfront to walk in a vast space and live a fragment of the refugees’ personal journeys through the use of state-of-the-art VR technology.
- Now until January 28, 2023. Most times are 11am – 6pm.
- Check out amazing article by KQED here.
The Craneway Pavilion
1414 Harbour Way S, Richmond
CA 94804, United States.
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About exhibit:
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Academy Award®-winning virtual reality experience CARNE y ARENA (Virtually present, Physically invisible) explores the human condition of immigrants and refugees.
Based on true accounts, the superficial lines between subject and bystander are blurred and bound together, allowing individuals to walk in a vast space and thoroughly live a fragment of the refugees’s personal journeys.
An immersive installation that reunites frequent collaborators Iñárritu and Emmanuel Lubezki alongside producer Mary Parent and ILMxLAB, CARNE y ARENA is a twenty-minute solo journey centered around a virtual reality sequence experienced by three concurrent visitors in separate rooms that employs state-of-the-art immersive technology to create a multi-narrative light space with human characters. CARNE y ARENA premiered at the 70th Cannes Film Festival as the first virtual reality project to be featured in the festival’s history. It was presented for the first time in its extensive full version at Fondazione Prada in Milan.
“During the making of this project, I had the privilege of meeting and interviewing many Mexican and Central American refugees,” Iñárritu said. “Their life stories haunted me, so I invited some of them to collaborate with me on the project. My intention was to experiment with VR technology to explore the human condition in an attempt to break the dictatorship of the frame—within which things are just observed—and claim the space to allow the visitor to go through a direct experience walking in the immigrants’ feet, under their skin, and into their hearts.”
Five-time Academy Award-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu [photo below] was presented a special Oscar® in 2017 for CARNE y ARENA, recognized by the Academy as an exceptional storytelling experience.
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Highlights:
🤩 Discover a groundbreaking and immersive virtual reality experience by Academy Award®-winning director Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🌎 Explore the human condition of immigrants and refugees through VR technology
🙌 In partnership and produced by Legendary Entertainment, Emerson Collective, Fondazione Prada and PHI Studio
📽️ CARNE y ARENA premiered at the 70th Cannes Film Festival, the first virtual reality project to be featured in the festival’s history
General Info:
📅 Date: various dates available (select when you purchase)
🕒 Opening hours:
– Wednesdays–Thursdays: 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. (last entry 7:45 p.m)
– Fridays: 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. (last entry 8:45 p.m)
– Saturdays: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m. (last entry 8:45 p.m)
– Sundays: 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (last entry 5:45 p.m)
Special dates
– Boxing Day Monday December 26 From 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (Last entry 5 p.m.)
– Monday January 2 – 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (last entry 5 p.m.)
– Martin Luther King Day Monday, January 16 – From 10:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. (last entry 5 p.m.)
⏳ Duration: 30 minutes
📍 Location: The Craneway Pavilion
👤 Age requirement: 15+ with valid ID
♿ Accessibility: the exhibition is accessible to those with reduced mobility, although additional assistance may be required. Please see the FAQs for more information and contact the venue prior to visit.
Now until January 28, 2023. Most times are 11am – 6pm.
The Craneway Pavilion
1414 Harbour Way S, Richmond
CA 94804, United States.
