A cinema for films that have no other home.
Scheduled screenings of independent films, AI-made features, and documentaries, inside your VR headset, with a real audience, at a set time.
What makes this different
The best seat in the house. Every time.
In a physical cinema your seat determines your experience. In CONTRABAND, when the film starts the room fades away and the screen fills your entire field of view. No bad angles. Nobody tall sitting in front of you. Every seat is the same seat.
You are not watching alone.
The room holds real people. You cannot see their faces. There are no avatars. But you can hear them. Someone laughs two rows back. The room goes quiet at exactly the right moment. That sound, the sound of a crowd absorbed in the same thing, is what makes cinema feel different from watching something at home. CONTRABAND brings it back.
It happens at a set time, for everyone.
The film starts at 8pm. So does everyone else. Nobody pauses it. Nobody skips ahead. The experience is shared in time as well as space, which is what turns watching into an event. That communal moment is what streaming took away and what CONTRABAND gives back.
Films that deserve to be seen.
Every film on CONTRABAND was selected by our community. Independent features, AI-made films, documentaries that got passed over by traditional distribution. Films with no other home, until now.
How it works
Sign up.
Create your account on our website. You will see upcoming screenings and get notified when new films are announced.
Book.
Find a screening and buy a ticket. You can also book seats for guests — they will receive a code to enter at the gate.
Watch.
Open Contraband VR on your Quest 3 or 3S and log in. Your upcoming screenings appear on your panel. Guests: enter your code when prompted.
When the film ends you vote. Those votes decide what screens next.
Early access
The first 100 to sign up get early access to test screenings, a vote on what CONTRABAND shows next, and a permanent seat at the table as a founding audience member.
