Israeli film wins grand experimental award at Berkeley festival
Tel Aviv University professor Nitzan Ben Shaul directed 'Turbulence,' the first interactive movie which enables the viewer to decide on the outcome.
By Haaretz Service Tags: Israel new Jewish WorldThe Israeli interactive film "Turbulence" won the Grand Festival Experimental Feature Award at the Berkeley Video and Film festival which took place at the Landmark Shattuck Theaters in downtown Berkeley.
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Poster of the film "Turbulence'. |
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The film made its United States premier on September 26 in an interactive screening before the festival audience.
Tel Aviv university professor Nitzan Ben Shaul and Daphna Cohen Ben Shaul directed the film with a complete cast of Israeli actors, creating the world's first movie which the viewer controls its outcome.
The film, categorized as an experimental hyper narrative interactive feature is a romantic drama about the lives of Israelis in Israel and New York.
It tells the story of three friends who meet in N.Y. more than 20 years after a crucial event which led to their dispersion. The three have a chance to reassess their past, and by so doing, they also have a chance at changing their future.
The plot is filled with pivotal moments which affect the outcome of the character's actions, and at each one of these "what if" moments, the film invites the viewer to select a narrative development that suits his desire.
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now if only they could make the mideast talks be interactive that would indeed be a prize winning venture it is nice they won but a professor making films? oh well ...to each their own
it will always have finite options, so eventually it will be repetitive.
Not when it comes to spiitting poison at Israel. Missed his freedom flotilla to Zimbabwe.!!
Man, why is always like this? This perpetual accounting of grievances, like a man can't have his own opinion when it comes to the Jewish people. Or that a university is one person, one opinion, one bishop. We pride ourselves on debate, but despise any opinion that finds at fault? We scream racist at opponents and yet have no problem generalizing an entire capus. seems silly eh?