The tiny island of Lazzaretto Vecchio in the Venice Lagoon has a long history populated with ghosts – from its 15th-century days as a quarantine island for plague victims to its 1960s incarnation as an exile for stray dogs. Today its airy, low-slung buildings are home to the Venice International Film Festival’s Immersive section, featuring 69 extended reality projects from across the world that are far evolved from the era of cardboard headsets.

Director Eliza McNitt, a New York-basedhellip;

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