One of Asia's largest short film festivals opened Tuesday in Tokyo, celebrating new ways to experience cinema through virtual reality and artificial intelligence as it maintained a hybrid format combining screenings at venues and online.With 2022 dubbed the year of the metaverse, an all-encompassing virtual world where people socialize and work, the 24th Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia, from June 7 to 20, will also feature an exclusive online seminar exploring the use of technology in filmmaking.In line with the theme, Japanese actor Tetsuya Bessho, who founded the festival in 1999, app…READ FULL ARTICLE
