Eyes and ears aren’t enough for the New Frontier program, the most experimental part of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.
“New Frontier’s always had an interest in immersive storytelling, storytelling that engages the body,” said Shari Frilot, the Sundance programmer who curates New Frontier, whose slate of 27 programs was revealed Wednesday.
Many of the works in New Frontier are virtual-reality programming, which require headsets that seem to surround the viewer with image and sound.
One work, an animated adaptation of author Neil Gaiman’s “Wolves in the Walls,” makes the viewer a participant in the story, Frilot said.