The Fury is a two-channel video installation in combination with a 360 video that "explores sexual exploitation of female political prisoners, referencing the Islamic Republic of Iran’s brutal treatment of political prisoners." Director Shirin Neshat is an established visual artist, photographer, video artist, and filmmaker who collaborated with Khora CTO and co-founder Peter Fisher who led the 360 video production. The two-channel video installation is told in three different parts, and the VR puts you in the middle part of the story.

I had a chance to catch up with Neshat and Fisher at Tribeca Immersive to unpack their process of producing the piece, how a two-channel video installation invites a view to choose how to edit the piece, how Neshat prefers that audiences will see the film to get the full context of the piece, and the preferred order to watch it. Tribeca was showing the VR portion before the video installation, and I found it to be a really powerful piece and combination of being immersed within the VR portion, and then being able to reference my own embodied memories in watching the full context of the two-channel video installation.

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