《Pigeon Ring》Won the Venice Immersion Award: A memory of grandparents and grandchildren enters VR imaging

The 83rd Venice International Film Festival has come to an end, and the Chinese VR short film - Pigeon Ring - won the Venice Immersion Award, the highest award in the Venice Immersion section.The film, directed by Zhang Yuqi and Tao Shixin, starts from a lost pigeon ring and follows the grandfather and grandson in their search.The entrance to the story is very small, but it puts the emotions about companionship, memory and intergenerational communication in ordinary families into an immersive image.

The pigeon ring was originally just a small object in the hands of pigeon breeders. After it was lost, it became a clue connecting the past and the present.While searching, the grandfather and grandson talked about their past lives again.The film does not rush to maximize emotions, but allows the audience to follow the characters through specific paths and see how memories are attached to objects, courtyards and a seemingly ordinary question.

The viewing method of VR short films will bring the audience closer to the characters.The camera no longer only decides where to look for the audience. The sounds in the environment, the direction of the space and the stay of the characters may all become part of the story.Using this form to talk about the relationship between ancestors and grandchildren, emotions do not have to rely on dense lines, but can also be hidden in a person's eyes when he looks back, a wait, and a journey together.

The Venice Immersion Unit has long been focusing on the creation of new media such as virtual reality and extended reality.The works entering this unit must not only face technical presentation, but also answer a simpler question: why are the audience willing to put on the device and enter this experience.《Pigeon Ring》chooses familiar family memories rather than distant spectacles, letting technology serve the proximity between characters.

Grandparents and grandchildren are often separated by different life experiences.The things that the old remember may seem to the young as just repeated old words; the haste of the young may not be understood by the elders in time.A dove ring keeps two people on the same thing, and also allows those feelings that are too late to be expressed to be expressed.The emotions of the film therefore have a concrete landing point, and there is no need to rely on grand events to prove it.

Chinese works have continued to enter different sections of international film festivals in recent years, and immersive images have provided a new stage.It requires creators to be familiar with spatial narrative, interaction rhythm and device characteristics, and it is also inseparable from a solid story.For Pigeon Ring, this award means that a short film focusing on an ordinary family can be fully seen by audiences from different cultural backgrounds.Those details about family love also have a further echo in the new image language.

The screening in Venice has ended, but the imagination left by the film will continue.VR technology will continue to be updated, and viewing equipment will also change. What people really look forward to when entering a story is still being able to connect with the characters.《Pigeon Ring》Starts from a lost object and returns the focus to the most easily ignored concerns in daily life.This unassuming emotion may be why it touches people in the immersion unit.