Over the Rainbow

Taiwan

2023

10''

Over the Rainbow

Summary

It is human nature to long for something different, something that lies “somewhere over the rainbow.” At times, this aspirational dreaming leads to improvements, but more often than not, this attitude leads to a sense of discontent with our own lot, an unquenchable thirst for what is just beyond our reach. "Over the Rainbow" explores this precarious balance between desire and happiness, fantasy and familiarity.

Director: Craig Quintero

Production: Riverbed Theatre

Festival | Tribeca Film Festival: Official Selection (2023)

Festival | Biennale di Venezia: Official Selection Venice Immersive (2023)

VR 360
Creation
Dance
Fantastic
Fiction
Music

Craig Quintero

Réalisateur-rice

Craig Quintero (b. 1970, USA) is the Artistic Director of the Taipei-based Riverbed Theatre Company. He has written and directed over fifty original imagebased performances, including productions in Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Singapore, China, France, Germany, and the United States. He is also a sculptor and installation artist whose work has been shown at the Asian Biennial, Venice Biennale Collateral Events, Kobe Biennale, Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei MOCA, and the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. His VR experience, All That Remains, premiered at the 79th Venice Film Festival (2022) and won the prize for Best Immersive Experience at the 2023 Luxembourg Film Festival and Best 360 VR Film at the Kaohsiung Film Festival. His second VR experience, Over the Rainbow, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and was selected for the "Best of" section for the 80th Venice Film Festival (2023). The project won the Panorama Prize at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. His most recent project, A Simple Silence, premiered at the Venice FIlm Festival. Craig was selected by Filmmaker Magazine as one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2023. A former Fulbright Senior Scholar, Craig received his Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and is a Professor in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Grinnell College.

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