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Tribeca Virtual Arcade 2016
Preview the best in VR short films from Tribeca's Virtual Arcade program and learn what's working in VR and what isn't.
Drama
Mai Vu
Spring Roll Dream
Linh is a Vietnamese single mother who's successfully forged a life for herself and her son in America. But when her father visits from Vietnam and insists on cooking the family a traditional Vietnamese meal, Linh is confronted with the past and culture she left behind and the question of where it belongs in her family's new life.
Documentary
Brandon Kapelow
An Act of Service
Rob, a fire captain living in the Mountain West, has been diagnosed with PTSD after experiencing a series of traumatic events at work. In an attempt to better manage his symptoms, he decides to undergo a new form of treatment: ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
Comedy
Daniel Gray Longino
& 2 Others
Ghost Family
Ghost Family is an absurdist take on a coming of age sitcom, about a high school kid whose family dies and continues raising him as ghosts until their unfinished business is finished.
Documentary
Michal Pietrzyk
All on a Mardi Gras Day
In a gentrifying New Orleans, Demond sacrifices to be Big Chief in a secret 200-year culture known as Mardi Gras Indians; African-American men who spend all year sewing feathered suits they’ll wear only once, in a battle to decide who’s “the prettiest.”
Music Video
Michael Ragen
Sleep Forever
A lone man traverses the desolate Alaskan wilderness in this extended music video for Portugal The Man.
Action
Ryan Prows
Narcocorrido
Winner of a Student Oscar, drug violence seeps over the border in this taught and violent action short.
Drama
Reinaldo Marcus Green
Stone Cars
A coming of age love story set in the shacks of Khayelitsha township, one of the most dangerous areas in the world.
Fantasy
Maegan Houang
In Full Bloom
The story of Cecile, an older Vietnamese-American hoarder, whose life is upended when worms open a black hole in her house and threaten to take all her stuff.
Best of the Month
Best of the Month: April 2021
A trio of haunting films make up the S/W team's Best of the Month picks for April
