On 11 November, Mexican director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s virtual reality installation, CARNE y ARENA (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible), created in collaboration with Fondazione Prada, will receive the Special Award presented by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “in recognition of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling”.
The Board of Governors particularly appreciated the cinematic and multimedia value of CARNE y ARENA, describing it as “…a deeply emotional and physically immersive venture into the world of migrants crossing the desert of the American southwest in early dawn light… A creative breakthrough in the still emerging form of virtual reality, it viscerally connects us to the hot-button political and social realities of the U.S.-Mexico border”.
The Oscar, Iñárritu’s fifth, will be presented in Hollywood on Saturday 11 November at the Annual Governors Awards.
‘CARNE y ARENA’
to receive an Oscar!
