VR EFFECT! Virtual Reality Cinema

Virtual Reality has landed at the National Museum of Cinema.

The National Museum of Cinema hosts CineVR in the Aula del Tempio — a brand-new area dedicated to virtual reality. Created in collaboration with Rai Cinema, the project aims to promote digital culture, innovation, and new technologies related to the world of film. CineVR is Italy’s first permanent movie theatre entirely devoted to VR, featuring a daily program of films designed and conceived specifically for this immersive medium. The lineup is updated monthly with new titles and also includes temporary selections presented during festivals and special events.

Programme

CineVR1 | Until July 6, 2026

Naima Karim

Mirage

(Netherlands, SAU 2025, 8 min., interactive VR, color, 360° VR, color) 

Set in a symbolic desert landscape, Mirage takes the viewer on an immersive journey into the mind of a young woman struggling with depression and anxiety. Through hand-tracking, spatial audio, and original music, the work creates a sensory experience that fosters empathy and attentive listening.

Selected for the competition at Venice Immersive 2025, the project draws inspiration from the author’s personal experience.

Learn more: https://www.naimakarim.com/mirage

CineVR2 | Until July 6, 2026

Fabio Thieme

Silent Disco. If you are going to hell, go slowly

(Germany 2023, 15 min., 360° VR, color)

In an elevator on a slow but inexorable descent, each stop introduces increasingly unusual situations, until the space transforms into a “physical” immersive environment set to techno beats.

Premiering worldwide at BIFAN in South Korea, Silent Disco -which consists of two additional episodes set on two more virtual dance floors- has screened at the NewImages Festival in Paris, the Kaohsiung Film Festival (one of Asia’s leading XR festivals), and SXSW in London, among others.

Learn more: https://johannesschmuelling.com/silent-disco/

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CineVR is included in the Museum admission ticket.

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.