Q&A: Hacking VR Speaker Vincent Morisset

Immerse on 2017-05-26

A still from Way To Go, an interactive experience on the web.

Vincent Morisset, author of award-winning works such as Bla-Bla, Way-to-Go (NFB/France Télévisions) and interactive music videos (Neon Bible), sits down for a few minutes to discuss his work in VR and views on the medium.

Vincent Morisset is a director and the founder of the Montreal based studio AATOAA. His work with Arcade Fire, Sigur Rós and the NFB has been featured in Wired, Creative Review, Le Monde and The Guardian, among others, and at the Museum of the Moving Image, Gaité Lyrique, Sundance, IDFA, Rotterdam Film Festival and La Biennale di Venezia. He won an Emmy, many Webbys, a Japan Media Art Festival prize and the FWA Site of the Year. Vincent is the instigator of the Digital Storytelling Manifesto.

See the whole series of Hacking VR interviews and talks here.

Video produced by Beyza Boyacioglu of MIT’s Open Doc Lab

This interview series is presented by MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology, and supported by the MacArthur Foundation.

Immerse is an initiative of Tribeca Film Institute, MIT Open DocLab and The Fledgling Fund. Learn more about our vision for the project here.