Craig Quintero
Taiwan
2025
33''
Summary
We are comforted by facts, by the familiarity of things we know to be “true.” The sun rises in the east. There are twenty-four hours in a day. I exist. These truisms simplify our lives, enable us to get through the process of living. We are not afraid to leap into the air, because we know we will land on the ground. The Just for You Trilogy explores the possibilities that exist beyond these everyday patterns, that blur the lines between dream and reality. Combining Riverbed’s three award-winning 360VR films (All That Remains, Over the Rainbow, and A Simple Silence) into a single experience, the Just for You Trilogy immerses the audience in a surreal meditation on memory, death, and desire.
Production: Riverbed Theatre.
Festivals
Festival | XRMust : Best Non-interactive/360 Video - Over the Rainbow (2023)
Festival | Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinéma : Panorama Award - Over the Rainbow (2023)
Festival | Luxembourg City Film Festival : Best Immersive Experience Award - All That Remains (2023)
Festival | XRMust : Best Sound Design Bronze Award - A Simple Silence (2023)
Festival | Kaohsiung Film Festival : Official Selection XR Competition (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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