The 20th Verzió International Human Rights Film Festival (Budapest) has sent out a reminder to VR creators to submit productions for its 2023 Vektor VR programme. The submissions deadline is 28 August. Submissions for International Competition, the Student and Debut Film Competition and the Hungarian Competition are now closed.
“The boundaries between the realm of Virtual Reality (VR) and the real world are gradually converging, merging with our reality and blurring our perception,” write festival organisers. “This fusion challenges our understanding of what is real. Furthermore, we are becoming increasingly attuned to detecting imperceptible occurrences, enabling us to create fresh interpretations and meanings. Beside these new forms of perception, we are also more open to comprehend hidden actions and events by defining and naming them, such as the notion of “invisible work” or acknowledging the presence of beings beyond human.”
“For Vektor VR 2023, we invite VR creators to submit their work that delves deeper into our senses, methods of comprehension, and modes of interaction, aiming to uncover novel ways of encountering and embodying the ‘other,’” festival organisers add.
The festival has also put out the call for applications to its Verzió Young Documentary Film Critics Workshop which will run Nov 21-25. The tutors are Pamela Cohn, a freelance film & video curator, arts & culture writer, nonfiction story consultant and dramaturge for filmmakers and moving image artists; and Zsolt Gyenge who works is Associate Professor at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Budapest, Hungary), where he teaches courses in film analysis, avant-garde cinema, film theory, film history, and visual communication theory.
The 20th Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival takes place 22–29 November 2023 in Budapest and other towns across Hungary, and online at festival.verzio.org between 30 November and 10 December 2023.
