The immersion experience "Carne y arena" can be done from this Monday at the EITB headquarters in Bilbao
Over the past few days, the technical teams have worked hard to make the necessary adjustments. To prepare this experience, they have faced a major technical challenge and hadto use a new device that requires specific technical conditions .
"Meat and sand"
Theimmersion experience of Carne and Arena by the Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñarritu can be carried out from this Mondayat the headquarters of EITB in Bilbao, following the latest technical adjustments that have been made to ensure the proper functioning of the facility, according to the producer 90_20 in a statement.
The visitor places his virtual reality work in the middle of a part of the journey of Mexican and Central American migrants and refugees .
Over the past few days, the technical teams have worked hard to make the necessary adjustments. To prepare this experience, they have faced a major technical challenge and had to use a new device that requires specific technical conditions .
The producer appreciates the support of EITB and the organizing entities and regrets the inconvenience caused in the agenda and announces that an institutional event will be held on Friday, March 20, with the presence of Alejandro González Iñarritu. Ticketsto visit the facility can be purchased\u00A0 on the EITB website.
Theinstallation has arrived in Bilbaothrough the Bilbao City Council, the Provincial Councilof Bizkaia, the BBK Banking Foundationand EITB. Carne and Arena premiered in 2017 at the 70th Cannes Festival, and the Hollywood Academy awarded it an Oscar that same year as "an extraordinary narrative experience. "
In total, the work proposes a 15-minute experience, including six and a half minutes of virtual reality performance, and "the visitor does not see migration: it goes through it." Iñárritu has said that this work was born out of a desire to "break the dictatorship of framing" and allow a direct experience, "walking with the feet of migrants, under their skin and inside their hearts. "
For the director, the symbolic dimension of the start of the tour in Euskal Herriais undeniable, and he has recalled the solidarity that the Mexican people showed to the Basque exiles after the Spanish Civil War and how he also has family ties with the people.
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