Discover and explore immersive films and meet the creative minds who make them.
A new kind of review, for a new kind of cinema.
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INTRODUCTION
What does it feel like to step inside a story? This introduction to The Immersive Review covers what we explore here: reviews, filmmaker conversations, and perspectives on immersive, spatial, and interactive cinema, from immersive enthusiasts to first-time viewers.
Introducing: The Immersive Review
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S1E0: Welcome to The Immersive Review
Filmmaker, creative technologist, and founder Andrew Hicks shares the story behind The Immersive Review — what inspired it, what it's here to do, and why this moment in cinema feels too important to leave uncovered.
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The Immersive Review
Our micro-glyph is built from the three forms of cinematic storytelling at the heart of our mission — immersive, spatial, and immersive interactive.
Together, they represent our commitment to sharing these formats with new audiences, and championing the creative minds pushing the medium forward.
Immersive Storytelling
Narrative storytelling captured in stereoscopic (3D) 180° or 360° designed to surround you completely and dissolve the boundary between audience and story. These works trade the screen for the world.
Spatial Storytelling
Stereoscopic narrative storytelling contained within a window, where three-dimensional depth is the primary expressive tool. These works prioritize intimacy over scale, pulling you closer rather than placing you inside.
Immersive Interactive Storytelling
Stereoscopic immersive narrative where your choices actively shape the story’s path. Your presence made purposeful, your participation made meaningful.
More on our approach
A New Way to Review
Our reviews come from honest reaction and genuine enthusiasm, welcoming all perspectives. When we offer criticism, it's focused on one thing: what the medium needs to keep evolving. We critique the limitations of the form — never the filmmaker, never the work.
A Source of Inspiration
Whether you're discovering immersive cinema for the first time or deep in production on your next spatial film, The Immersive Review is for you. We want to make you want to watch, watch more — and maybe make.
Documenting a Developing Cinematic Language
The language to describe what we experience in immersive cinema is still being invented. The Immersive Review exists to document that language as it forms — so the next generation of immersive storytellers has something to build from.