CARNE Y ARENA – A groundbreaking and immersive virtual reality experience by Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Academy Award®-winning virtual reality experience CARNE y ARENA (Virtually present, Physically invisible) explores the human condition of immigrants and refugees.

Based on true accounts, the superficial lines between subject and bystander are blurred and bound together, allowing individuals to walk in a vast space and thoroughly live a fragment of the refugees’s personal journeys. An immersive installation that reunites frequent collaborators Iñárritu and Emmanuel Lubezki alongside producer Mary Parent and ILMxLAB, CARNE y ARENA is a twenty-minute solo journey centered around a virtual reality sequence experienced by three concurrent visitors in separate rooms that employ state-of-the-art immersive technology to create a multi-narrative light space with human characters. CARNE y ARENA premiered at the 70th Cannes Film Festival as the first virtual reality project to be featured in the festival’s history. 

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Introducing The World’s Largest Immersive Experience About Life in Space at the Craneway Pavilion

Space Explorers: THE INFINITE makes spaceflight accessible to those with their feet on the ground. Lift off and embark on a journey to the International Space Station to join the astronaut crew. Feel the sensation of being in Space, get swept up in the breathtaking views of Earth, and let your emotions fly!

An Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Interactive Program, Space Explorers: The ISS Experience is the largest production ever filmed in space.