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.

Program

CineVR1 | until 14 January 2026

Vulnicura VR – Remastered (USA 2025, VR360°, col., ENG)

Ten years after the release of the album Vulnicura, Björk presents the remastered version of Vulnicura VR, her pioneering virtual reality project that blends music and immersive imagery. The new edition — updated by PulseJet Studios — offers enhanced spatial audio and completely reprogrammed visuals. The original Vulnicura VR project, presented at the Björk Digital exhibition (2016–2020), shown in various museums around the world including MoMA in New York and Miraikan in Tokyo, brings together the seven virtual reality video clips created for the 2015 album.
For Björk, this remastered version is not just an act of digital preservation, but a way to explore the therapeutic potential of VR, offering an intimate and deeply immersive musical experience.

Teaser Vulnicura VR - Remastered

CineVR2 | until 14 January 2026*

Aurora
(Italy 2023, 9’, VR360°, col., ITA with ENG subtitles) by Luca Michele

Aurora is a VR work based on the short film A voce nuda by Mattia Lobosco, winner of the fifth edition of the contest La Realtà che “NON” esiste (“The Reality that Does NOT Exist”).
The 2023 edition focused on the theme of sextortion, a term combining sex and extortion, referring to sexual blackmail carried out online.
Aurora is in an intense and happy relationship. When she decides to study music away from home, however, her boyfriend reacts with anger, throwing their relationship into crisis. The film explores themes of control, freedom, and toxic relationships.

Re-Imagine Cabiria
(Italy 2024, 9’, VR360°, col., ITA) by Mattia Arrigoni

A short film that reinterprets the silent cinema masterpiece Cabiria (1914), directed by Giovanni Pastrone and enriched by the literary intertitles of Gabriele D’Annunzio, through the integration of digital technologies such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and the powerful 3D graphics engine Unreal Engine.
A project by the National Museum of Cinema of Turin and Rai Cinema, produced by Cubia and Spazio Koch, in collaboration with Unspace and the University of Turin.

The CineVR2 program is presented in collaboration with Rai Cinema.

* From 10 to 15 December 2025, the CineVR1 and 2 programme is curated by Sottodiciotto: visit the festival’s WEBSITE to find out more.

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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.