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Do {not} touch: from calm, dreamy distance to the urge to touch in IDFA's virtual reality

Today opens IDFA's The DocLab, perhaps my favourite part of the festival. With its own competition, commissions and exhibition, this is the realm of digital experimentation. For this edition, I visited the VR works in the Tolhuistuin and what I saw was of enormous variety. From slow essayistic documentaries (but in 360 degrees) to a game very suitable for children: the selection showed what is possible in terms of new narrative forms for documentaries.

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Helen Westerik

Helen Westerik is a film historian and great lover of experimental films. She teaches film history and researches the body in art.View Author posts

Today opens IDFA's The DocLab, perhaps my favourite part of the festival. With its own competition, commissions and exhibition, this is the realm of digital experimentation. For this edition, I visited the VR works in the Tolhuistuin and what I saw was of enormous variety. From slow essayistic documentaries (but in 360 degrees) to a game very suitable for children: the selection showed what is possible in terms of new narrative forms for documentaries.

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