VR installation Carne y Arena is an experience machine: stand among distraught migrants in the Arizona desert

by Leo Bankersen
15 June 201830 March 2022
7 min read
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Om het woestijnzand echt tussen je tenen te voelen moet je blootsvoets naar binnen. De woestijn is het niemandsland tussen Mexico en de Verenigde Staten waar ieder jaar bijna duizend hoopvolle migranten het leven laten. Een oversteek die net zo dramatisch is als de tocht in wrakke bootjes over de Middellandse Zee. Die zanderige vlakte doemt op in de virtual reality-installatie Carne y Arena (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible) van Alejandro González Iñárritu, bekend als regisseur van Birdma...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

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