Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground
Directed by César Oyarzabal
Length: 22:00
Producers: Jessica Yiwen Qian
Editors: Jacob Boblit & César Oyarzabal
Cinematographer: Yinan Shi
Sound Mixer: John Keville
In the social platform VR CHAT, players have built a society of their own that re-creates everything of real life on Earth. The filmmaker thus engages himself in a quest to understand what’s the appeal to this ‘second life’.
Undergraduate Film & TV
cjo303@nyu.edu
César Oyarzabal is a young French filmmaker at NYU Tisch Film & TV who has created over 30 short films. Born to cinephile parents, including a stage and screen actor father, his upbringing between France, China, and the US enriched his cinematic sensibilities.
His short documentaries have taken place in France, Spain, Morocco, the US, and now the Metaverse.
In this century where people physically travel and digitally connect more than ever before, César strives to tell these stories of the new world.