Craig Quintero
Taiwan
2024
12''
Summary
It seems like such an easy request: a simple silence. A stillness without the weight of work or love or death. A moment in between. But we have learned there is an almost impossible gap between this ambition and the reality of living, that our silence is never simple. In the flickering light, we hold our breaths, anticipating the storm. Something must be lost before it can be found.
Production: Riverbed Theatre
Festivals
Festival | Biennale di Venezia: Official Selection Venice Immersive (2025)
Festival | Kaohsiung Film Festival: XR Competition Official Selection (2025)
Craig Quintero
Réalisateur-rice
Craig Quintero is the Artistic Director of the Taipei-based Riverbed Theatre Company. He has written and directed over fifty original image-based performances, with productions presented in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, China, France, Germany, England, and the United States.
He is also a sculptor and installation artist whose work has been exhibited at the Asian Biennial, Venice Biennale Collateral Events, Kobe Biennale, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei MOCA, and the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art.
His VR experience, All That Remains, premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival (2022) and received the Best Immersive Experience Award at the 2023 Luxembourg City Film Festival and the Best 360VR Film Award at the Kaohsiung Film Festival. His second VR experience, Over the Rainbow, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Festival, was selected for the Best of Venice Immersive program at the 80th Venice International Film Festival (2023), and received the Panorama Prize at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. His third VR experience, A Simple Silence, premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival (2024). The complete Just for You Trilogy premiered at SXSW in 2025.
In 2025, he co-directed the mixed reality experience Blur with Phoebe Greenberg. The production premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival and has since toured internationally, with presentations at the National Theater & Concert Hall and National Taichung Theater in Taiwan, PHI Centre in Montréal, and Theater der Welt in Germany. Blur received the 2025 XRMust Award and the 2026 NUMIX Award.
Craig was selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2023. A former Fulbright Senior Scholar and Mellon Foundation Humanities Unbounded Fellow, he received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and is Professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Grinnell College.
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