Tsai Ming-Liang shares vivid childhood memories of movies seen with his grandparents every night, explaining why he never filmed one key story. This indie casual VR experience revives his unmade film through volumetric capture in a 5-part documentary series. Filmmakers like Abel Ferrara, Catherine Hardwicke, Lee Myung-se, and Naomi Kawase narrate key details and reasons their projects stayed unmade.
Viewers explore five independent episodes in any order, seated for the 12-minute sessions. The series offers glimpses into these directors' minds and cinema history. Fans of thoughtful, narrative-driven VR documentaries find a quiet match here.
Tsai Ming-Liang, the Taiwanese maestro of slow cinema, doesn’t have a real “missing picture”. But what he does have are childhood memories, so vivid that he told us why it is impossible for him to film it, in a moving tribute to his grandparents who took him to see two movies every night.
MISSING PICTURES is a 5-part documentary series in VR that brings to life unmade films. Shot in volumetric capture, the filmmakers Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming-Liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Lee Myung-Se and Naomi Kawase narrate to us some key points of the movie and why it was never made.
What’s MISSING PICTURES?
* An immersive dive into the mind of some of the most interesting filmmakers of our time
* A unique documentary about history of Cinema
* Produced by ATLAS V, the award-winning studio that brought Gloomy Eyes, Battlescar, Madrid Noir, Ayahuasca - Kosmik Journey
* Five independent episodes, to be discovered in any order
A series directed by Clément Deneux from an original idea by Joseph Beauregard
Episode codirected with Kuan-Yuan Lai
Coproduced by Atlas V, ARTE France, BBC, PTS, Serendipity Films, Wild Fang Films, Giioii
With the support from CNC, Pictanovo, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Procirep-Angoa, TAICCA, Film Fund Luxembourg, RAPA and Ministry of Science and ICT (Republic of Korea)
Duration: 12 minutes
To be experienced seated
