Tribeca Film Festival | EVOLVER: A VIRTUAL REALITY JOURNEY OF LIFE AND BREATH

The world premiere of EVOLVER: A Virtual Reality of Life and Breath happened last Thursday in the Tribeca Immersive: Main Competition at the Tribeca Film Festival. The experience, narrated by Cate Blanchett and directed by Marshmallow Laser Feast, is live now through June 19th at 120 Broadway in New York.

EVOLVER is a collective virtual reality experience that follows the flow of oxygen through our branching ecosystem to a single ‘breathing’ cell—making the connection between breath, life, and the natural world clear, through the cycle of respiration. Executive produced by Edward R. Pressman and Terrence Malick, featuring music by Jonny Greenwood, Meredith Monk, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Howard Skempton, and Jon Hopkins, the experience invites you to explore yourself, and discover that just under your skin you are a branching being made of rivers, whirlpools, and ripples in the tides of existence.

“The world flows into you and you flow into the world. The atmosphere is a co-creation of all breathing beings, you don't exist except in relationship to everything else. The trees, mycelium, bacteria, pollinators, rivers, oceans are as much a part of you as your own branching body,” says Barnaby Churchill Steel of Marshmallow Laser Feast.

“At a time when women’s reproductive rights are coming under attack, and the planet is under climate duress, the use of an immersive visual medium to show the immutable relationship between how we treat the female body and how we treat the planet is needed more than ever. Bia-Echo is thrilled to support this project, as we believe it has the power to awaken the restless spirit to a greater truth about our existence, and the interwoven web between humans and the natural world,” says Nicole Shanahan of Bia-Echo Foundation.

“What MLF has done with EVOLVER is a profoundly new experience; it’s a new form of transcendental story-telling, a new visual philosophy, and a new sensory language. Great cinema has always been an immersive experience, blending together elements of the arts that came before it, becoming a new art form onto itself. Pressman Film is thrilled to continue its 50+ year mission of championing independent cinema in this collaboration with visionary partners who are pushing the art and science of the motion picture into a new frontier,” says Ed Pressman and Sam Pressman of Pressman Film.

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