Film: "The Andy Warhol Diaries," Virtual Reality Filmmaking

Film & Documentary

March 18, 2022 • View in browser

Presence and Absence in Virtual Reality Storytelling

Charlie Shackleton talks to Hyperallergic about his performance piece As Mine Exactly and the challenges of virtual reality filmmaking. | Dan Schindel

Charlie Shackleton: Something that’s also interesting about VR is the void, which you don’t often get to see because most of the work is so visually populated. You don’t usually get to linger on the strange absence of a frame, but I think that’s intriguing. If I put something in someone’s peripheral vision in a space they had gotten used to being blank, you can see how radical it is for them to suddenly breach this imagined wall.

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An AI-Generated Andy Warhol Confides In Us

The extensive Netflix docuseries, based on Warhol’s memoirs, won’t fully satisfy either casual viewers or fans of the Pop icon.

The Andy Warhol Diaries waffles between acting as a primer on the artist and trying to go deeper into his psyche, eliding whole vital swaths of his biography while fixating on other parts of questionable relevance.

Split between appealing to novices and art world enthusiasts, it’s difficult to imagine the docuseries fully pleasing either crowd.

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The 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival Is In-person and Online

After two years of online-only festivals, the AAFF will return to the Michigan Theater in Downtown Ann Arbor from March 22 to 27. Learn more.

What We Have to Say About the 2022 Academy Award Nominees

As our horizons darken with the impending approach of the 94th Academy Awards (Sunday, March 27), we’ve compiled a must-read list of our critics’ reviews of this year’s nominees, plus interviews with the directors of two films up for Best Documentary.

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