Welcome to Wales Millennium Centre's first VR Cinema (evening programme) - an exciting opportunity for audiences to experience Craig Quintero's extraordinary Just for You Trilogy, 3 virtual reality shortfilms played back to back.
We are comforted by facts, by the familiarity of things we know to be “true.” The sun rises in the east. There are twenty-four hours in a day. I exist. These truisms simplify our lives, enable us to get through the process of living. We are not afraid to leap into the air, because we know we will land on the ground. The Just for You Trilogy explores the possibilities that exist beyond these everyday patterns, that blur the lines between dream and reality.
Combining Riverbed’s three award-winning 360VR films (All That Remains, Over the Rainbow, and A Simple Silence) into a single experience, the Just for You Trilogy immerses the audience in a surreal meditation on memory, death, and desire.
Presented as part of our VR Cinema programming, this trilogy by Craig Quintero also marks the return of a creator we previously spotlighted during PHI’s Taiwan showcase in 2022.
In "Just for You," Craig Quintero masterfully brings his theatrical expertise into the immersive medium. The audience can feel the precision of stagecraft in every frame, the emotional depth of the characters, and an unsettling closeness with the protagonists. This trilogy creates a rare and powerful connection between viewer and subject—between what is seen and what is felt.
All That Remains (2022)
Despite all of our knowing, we will never be known. All That Remains is a meditation on the fluid boundary between dream and reality, fear and desire. It is an invitation to see and be seen.
Over the Rainbow (2023)
Forgoing a linear narrative, Over the Rainbow immerses the audience in a surreal landscape. The experience, like life, does not have a singular plot or meaning. Something happens, and then something else happens. Instead of providing a clear-cut moral message, Over the Rainbow encourages the audience to engage the sensations of the moment and embrace the uncertainty of the unknown.
A Simple Silence (2024)
A Simple Silence is the final chapter in Riverbed Theatre’s award-winning Just For You Trilogy . This 360VR experience continues the series’ exploration of our connectedness to the world around us, imbuing the environment with an animistic quality while also blurring the boundary between seeing and being seen. The audience is not a witness to the experience; they are the experience.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY - CRAIG QUINTERO
As the Artistic Director of the Taipei-based Riverbed Theatre Company, Craig has written and directed over fifty original image-based 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 360VR 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 Cinema.
His most recent project, A Simple Silence, premiered at the 2024 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 and Mellon Foundation Humanities Unbounded Fellow, 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.
CREDITS
Director: Craig Quintero
Producer: Suling Yeh
Screenwriter: Craig Quintero
VR Filming Supervisor and Post-Production: Ming-Yuan Chuan, Ming-Yang Yeh
Cinematographer: William Chou
Editor: Ping-Ying Yen
Music: Yu-Jun Wang
Sound Designer: Chin-Lun Kao
Principal Cast: Yu-Hsin Yu, Ollie Huang, Hsu-Fang Tung, Chih-Hen Hsu, Yu-Shan Tsai, Mei-Chun Hsiang, Fang-Fang Lin, Wei- Cih Li, Yen-Yi Liang, Li-Mei Chung
Scenic Artist: Carl Johnson, Chang-Chih Chen, Zhen-Yu Liao, Shiou-Ling Sheng
Gaffer: Wen-Tse Chen
Costume Design: Ra Thomson, Ya-Chi Chen
Produced/ Presented by: Riverbed Theatre, Riverbed Theatre Ltd.
Advised & Supported by: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Supported by: TAICCA, National Taichung Theater, Kaoshiung Film Archive, Hong Foundation, Project Seek
Venues Sponsored by: C-LAB, NTUA OUR Museum, National Taiwan Science Education Center
Content Warning: This experience contains explicit nudity.
Please note, most people do not experience any negative reactions to Virtual Reality. However, VR may be disorientating for individuals who are neurodiverse, have hearing or sight impairments, or experience vertigo, epilepsy, dizziness, seizures, motion sickness or fainting.
Performance Times: 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm
Running Time: Approx 33 mins
Age Guidance: 16+
Capacity: 15
Access: This is a seated experience; there will be wheelchair access, but this is limited per time slot.
FAQ's
The Just For You Trilogy is a part of our VR cinema; the 3 Virtual Reality short films will play one after another for a total of 33 minutes, this experience will require you to wear a VR headset.
The experience lasts approximately 33 minutes.
Headphones and Virtual Reality headsets are used during this experience.
Yes, our hosts will be on hand to guide and support throughout your entire experience.
Yes, the experience is accessible to people with reduced mobility; you will remain seated throughout and minimal-no interaction is required throughout. However this experience does require visitors to wear a Virtual Reality headset. Please contact us before purchasing your ticket(s) if you have any questions or queries around this.
No, this experience has an age restriction of 16+
