Between Documentary and Immersive Experiences – New Ways to Tell the Real

Experiencing firsthand stories and places, traversing archives, inhabiting museums and memories: how Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and 360° video are changing the way of telling the real between cultural heritage and documentary.

Not just technology, but new ways of seeing, remembering and inhabiting cultural places. Extended Reality (XR) is transforming museums, archives, and festivals into immersive spaces where documentary filmmaking becomes an experience: reconstructing vanished environments, reactivating collections, interweaving intimate memories and collective heritage. Between artistic experimentation and research, the panel explores the potential and responsibility of immersiveness: who narrates? From what perspective? For what community?

Panelists
Alina Goldwoman – UX designer and immersive media researcher, Institute for Sound & Vision, Netherlands
Francesca Panetta – Director AKO Storytelling Institute, UK
Sara Francesca Tirelli – Artist and Filmmaker, XR Consultant and Mentor
Moderator
Antonio Giacomin – Creative technologist, XR artist and consultant