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Cannes, in the black submersible mirror

And through what do the creators and technologists who succeeded Carlton's magician Méliès haunt us? With virtual reality, augmented reality, unreal reality, mixed reality, unparalleled spectacles that don't exist but take shape in front of our eyeglasses.
Next year, the International Film Festival of Can. will be 80 years old. The Un Certain Regard section will be 50 years old by 2027. Although it is not the main one, it will be the second highest level. Two other meetings that round up these annual Celluloid Olympics on the Côte d'Azur will be reached in the next 11 months.

It is obvious that, on the La Croisette Walk and beyond, in the huge spaceship Cineum cinema complex in the wonderful neighborhood of Cannes La Bocca, or in comfortable and delightful little rooms like the Licorne run by film players, the departments that make imaginary proposals are already a little older.

No, it's not a matter of ramblings. We're going to celebrate all these anniversaries with champagne or Pastis. Besides, compared to the Venice Show, Cannes is still young. Imagine that in 2027 it will be 84 years old next to the Lido and the film festival that takes place in the  squares of the Republica Serenissima.

However, here's the legitimate question, isn't there a series almost newborn on the Côte d'Azur, an audio-visual selection of ?

Here's the unquestionable answer, yes. Next year, the Inmersive Competition will be only four years old. In 2024, this futuristic temptation took refuge in the prestigious Carlton Hotel, built in the U00A01911. Since then, it has needed more space year after year.

Physical space, more and more square meters, for what, to surprise people, to offer those of us who are used to the usual cinema an infinite alternative, which is now almost unexplored.

And through what do we be haunted by the creative technologists who succeeded Carlton's wizard Méliès?  With virtual reality, augmented reality, unreal reality, mixed reality, unparalleled spectacles that don't exist but take shape in front of our eye-glasses.

You're at the Carlton Hotel, the walls are marble, and you're going through multiverse, there's no screen, and if there's, maybe it's not real, it doesn't matter, because in this series that's going to turn four next year, they tell you about a world that's not going to happen, so what's the reality?

The references, however, are often classic, and in them we find the old friends . I'm sure you know that this year the Black Mirror Experiencehas won a jackpot in that ic . Yes, the starting point, the benchmark, is there, in that series  brand that questions the world we see/touch/live in. But the physical-virtual specimen built by David Bardoz and Damia Ferrandiz is not to be seen, but to live.

Inmersive Competition, The Black Mirror Experience... Will we ever have it in the halls? Never. Because it's not cinema. What is it, then? Who knows, but this time, he has to turn the old Basque proverb: he has had no name.

Cannes Festival

Aitor Etxebarria puts music on his diving work "The Black Mirror Experience"

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The Spanish film The Black Mirror Experience is a immersion work based on the famous television series, which seeks the award for the competitive Immersive section of the Cannes Festival.

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The Inmersive Competitionwill be four years old in 2027 and there are already many Basques (Asier Landa, Aitor Fernandez Ispilu Beltz Experiencetechnicians, high-level artists) ready and willing to explore the worlds in which they are about to be born.

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