VRIJPLAATS 2023: CREATING THE EXPERIENCE

FilmForward is organizing the Vrijplaats – Creating the Experience – at MACA. How do you tell immersive stories for film, interactively, and crossover (VR, AR, and XR)? The spectator becomes a participant. How do you shape this new experience in terms of film plan, script, visual language, and worldbuilding, and how do you talk about the feeling you want to evoke in the spectator? In addition to an inspiring program, filmmakers will have the opportunity to experiment with immersive narrative forms and conduct their own research. The residency program runs from May through November 2023. The application deadline is March 24.

The 'Creating the Experience' Free Space accommodates all kinds of film professionals and visual makers who want to explore that immersive experience: production designers, theatre makers, game designers, screenwriters, producers, dancers, composers, etc. The Free Space is for emerging makers who want to experiment with immersive storytelling forms, but certainly also for experienced makers.

You work on both your own research and that of others: you are a researcher, test audience, sounding board, and expert all at the same time. Community building is very important to the Vrijplaats, which is why we expect you to be available on all the dates below. Financial compensation is available for all artists.

For your own research, you work with a mentor; in joint sessions and masterclasses—partially shaped by yourselves—we explore together the tension, the interplay, and the dance between maker and participant, between immersive artist and immersant. Recurring speakers at the Vrijplaats include Winnie Roseval (Positionality training) and Rogier Klomp, who organizes DasArts feedback sessions.

View the Vrijplaats as an open and creative space, a laboratory where all questions contributing to the deepening and improvement of your artistry and the film and audiovisual sector can come into their own. Are you a maker from the Netherlands or Belgium (Flanders) and are you curious and empathetic, interested in giving and receiving feedback, in experimenting and reflecting, and in research that is currently not covered by existing subsidies? Then the Vrijplaats might be for you.

Together, we create a safe space to work on cinematic stories outside of established frameworks. De Vrijplaats is not results-oriented but invests time in creative research processes.

'Creating the Experience' is curated by film journalist and writer Dana Linssen and immersive director Nienke Huitenga. Each participant is paired with a mentor in consultation, who guides your research process throughout the Vrijplaats.



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