This year, the iconic Sundance Film Festival isn’t being held in beautiful Park City, Utah. Instead, as with most events around the world, the 2021 edition is a remote film festival. Luckily, even with the change in format, there’s still plenty to explore, from insightful documentaries to creative features by new directors to clever virtual reality experiences. This year’s edition includes cult films like the Nic Cage movie Prisoners of the Ghostland; the trippy animated flick Cryptozoo; and pandemic-related stories The Pink Cloud and In The Same Breath. We’ll be attending the festival virtually, so stay tuned for the latest reviews and analysis right here.
In 2021, the Sundance Film Festival found art in Zoom, Instagram, and VR theater
A New Frontier for a year at home
The pandemic was inescapable at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival
From movies about Zoom calls to pre-apocalyptic comedies
A Glitch in the Matrix is quirky, creepy, and way too unreal
Intelligent design for sociopaths
The Pink Cloud is an eerily prescient sci-fi movie about being stuck in quarantine
It was written in 2017, but remains incredibly relevant today
Cryptozoo’s stunning animation isn’t enough to save it from a meandering story
A menagerie of fantastical beasts
Prisoners of the Ghostland is destined to be the next Nic Cage cult movie
It’s ridiculous, gory, and makes absolutely no sense
Censor finds eerie horror in an ‘80s moral panic
Video nasties get their day on-screen
