Ghosts, Toast and the Things Unsaid

ACMI explores bold new territory with three newly-commissioned, immersive Virtual Reality (VR) film experiences by some of Australia's most exciting creative practitioners – each one of them cross-disciplinary collaborations, taking live performance - theatre, dance and puppetry - into the realm of virtual reality.  

ACMI Director and CEO, Katrina Sedgwick, today remarked on the ability for virtual reality technology to bring live performance experiences to a broad audience. 'As VR becomes a new tool for artistic expression we are excited about how leading practitioners who work in live performance can harness it and speak to audiences in new ways on this rapidly evolving platform," said Katrina. 

'Through our expanding commissioning strategy, along with our co-working space ACMI X, ACMI is supporting artists from across the creative industries to explore cross disciplinary collaborations and embrace new technologies to speak to audiences through the moving image."

The second of ACMI's VR commissions that translate live performance into immersive film experiences is Sandpit's Ghost, Toast and the Things Unsaid, which opens on Saturday 29 October, in time for Halloween and as part of Melbourne International Games Week.