VR EFFECT! Virtual Reality Cinema

A Museum' area dedicated to virtual reality

 A recently renewed set-up, a new area dedicated to virtual reality, produced in partnership with Rai Cinema, CineVR is the first Italian permanent movie theatre completely dedicated to VR which features a non-stop daily programme, screening movies conceived and realised with this technique.

Visitors of the National Museum of Cinema will be able to pick one of the movies available in the visors’ library and reserve a viewing directly from the virtual reality desk. Movies will be screened on a loop while a technologically advanced hygienic system allows to sanitise the visors in one minute, ensuring the standards required by present regulations.

Programming from 8 October to 27 October 2025:

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Enrico Maso and Marco Fabbro

33/16

(Italy 2022, S1, 12 episodes, 29’, VR360°, col., ENG)

Just retired from NATO, Holger brings with him a secret file from 1969 and finally decides to reveal what has been kept quiet for years. Camera in hand, he begins the story of an episode that took place in August 1969 in an isolated tavern in Friuli: among doubtful farmers, restless animals and young patrons, a sudden roar pierces the night. Then silence...

Enrico Maso and Marco Fabbro

33/16

(Italy 2022, S2, 12 episodes, 21’, VR360°, col., ENG)

The tavern is enveloped in a mysterious light that isolates it from the outside world. The protagonists, trapped inside, move between growing fears and tensions. It is up to Holger and the audience to interpret the meaning of what has happened.

Both seasons of 33/16 are available, directed by Peter Zeitlinger, Werner Herzog's long-time collaborator, co-producer and director of photography for the series.

Jamie Hewlett

Saturnz Barz

(UK 2017 6’, VR360°,col., ENG)

A videoclip that, in 2017, preceded the release of Gorillaz's album, Humanz. The clip set a record for views for a VR video: in its first 48 hours of sharing, it was viewed over 3 million times on the band's official channel.

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Omar Rashid

Nebula VR

(Italy 2024, 9’, VR360°, col.)

Nebula VR is an extension of the Quiet Ensemble installation, featuring music by Giorgio Moroder, created inside the Gazometro. The original site-specific work is transformed into an immersive experience that amplifies the cosmic journey: lights, sounds and interstellar visions envelop the viewer, who is no longer a mere observer but part of the nebula itself.

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Due to the immersive technology of VR devices, the use of VR headsets is allowed only to people over 12 and is not recommended to pregnant women, people with epilepsy, heart or visual conditions, and people with pace-makers, cochlear implants, hearing aids.