ITFS Stuttgart plans hybrid event for 2022 edition
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The 29th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film (May 03-08, 2022) is planned as a hybrid event. The Festival team benefits from the successful online-only Festivals of the past two pandemic years in combining the return of ITFS to the cinemas and Schlossplatz in Stuttgart in 2022 with further professionalised online programmes.
The online programmes complement the Festival’s core – personal encounters between visitors, filmmakers and professionals from the fields of film, architecture, art, design, music, science and games, to meet like-minded people, discover and exchange information about current trends and tendencies, experience and provide impetus, and get to know personalities and animation history and stories from all over the world.
The hybrid format of the Festival of Animated Film makes it possible. To do justice to the national and international significance of the ITFS and to address further target groups, so that every animation fan worldwide can participate.
-Dieter Krauß, Commercial Managing Director of ITFS
A key element of the hybrid concept and an innovative and creative opportunity for encounters is the ITFS VR Hub – a digital multi-user experience where visitors can meet and interact virtually in avatar form at numerous locations. As an equivalent Festival venue, the ITFS VR Hub will also host numerous streaming events, workshops, and presentations. The innovative and still experimental character of the VR Hub has the potential to provide an example for similar applications on the market in its further technical and structural development.
-Ulrich Wegenast, Artistic Managing Director of ITFS
ITFS VR Hub 2021 (Cr: Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film)
The ITFS VR Hub is being developed together with American XR designer and architect Allison Crank and Swiss VR expert Christophe Merkle in Mozilla Hubs. In the process, the organiser of ITFS, Film-und Medienfestival gGmbH, benefits from the VR experiences already implemented for Raumwelten – Platform for Scenography, Architecture and Media 2020 and 2021 (with agency Lightshape, among others) and from the prototype development at ITFS 2021. With graphical, thematic, and functional adaptations, the application will also be used as a virtual event and meeting format for Raumwelten 2022. The project “ITFS & Raumwelten VR Hub“ is developed as part of “dive in. Programme for Digital Interactions” of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation) with funding by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) through the NEUSTART KULTUR programme.
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