The Museo nazionale del Cinema di Torino reopens today with an exciting new addition: CineVR, the first space in Italy dedicated to immersive experiences, created in collaboration with Rai Cinema. The first featured work is the short film Revenge Room by Gennaro Coppola, starring Alessio Boni and Violante Placido, which was launched in linear version at the Venice Film Festival. Through the use of a visor, the viewer is plunged directly into the scene for a good 8 minutes of sensorial experience. The short film focusses on a particularly topical issue, revenge porn, and was created to be used in different ways: in addition to linear and virtual uses, there is also interactive videomapping, projected onto the cupola of the Mole Antonelliana with an app that provides the dialogue during the screening.
There are six latest generation visors available for visitors, three in each of the two rooms. The aim is to welcome up to 200 visitors per day at first. Screening will take place on a continuous cycle for 8 hours a day and visitors can book at the virtual reality desk.
Thanks to the collaboration with Rai Cinema, new titles will soon be added, including as the short film Happy Birthday by Lorenzo Giovenga with Achille Lauro on the theme of social isolation and the documentary Lockdown, l’Italia invisibile by Omar Rashid, that shows the cities of Italy during the pandemic.
The new features are set in two of the 13 chapelle that surround the Temple room which previously housed the Amore&Morte and 3D set-ups, which were considered the new frontier of cinema until a few months ago.