Sex Crimes and Virtual Reality: Best VR Storytelling of 2017, Gina Kim's Bloodless

Nabbing Best VR Story at Venice, Bloodless is veteran filmmaker Gina Kim's (perhaps best known for 2007's Vera Farmiga-starring Never Forever) 12-minute immersive stunner. The US-South Korea coproduction was also selected as part of this year's IDFA DocLab Digital Storytelling program, which is where I experienced it, having gone into the VR Cinema without even bothering to read the synopsis. And because of my cluelessness, the story's climax packed a punch I never saw coming — one that shook ...