Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive: Gazes

Project: Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive: Gazes Client: Texas Ballet Theater Agency: Groove Jones Production / Studio: Groove Jones

Executive Creative Director / Creative Director: Karim Youssef Director: Henry Casillas Producer: Gabi Masters Experience Strategy: Karim Youssef Editorial: Armando Loredo Camera / Immersive Capture: Henry Casillas

Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive: Gazes is an immersive experience for Texas Ballet Theater, built at the intersection of spatial storytelling, immersive capture, and experience design. The work needed a clear idea first, then enough craft and structure to make that idea read inside the format it was made for.

Groove Jones carried the agency and production sides of the assignment, which kept the strategic read, creative development, production decisions, and final delivery moving as one connected pipeline.

On Blackmagic URSA Cine Immersive: Gazes, Karim Youssef's role was to keep the spatial format disciplined: turning performance into a spatial viewing experience where movement, proximity, and camera position carried the emotion. The experience strategy was about making immersion serve the story rather than overwhelm it.

The spatial format had to serve the idea, not distract from it. Camera placement, pacing, proximity, and atmosphere were treated as storytelling tools.

The result is spatial work with presence and restraint: immersive enough to feel immediate, focused enough to keep the story in control.

The craft sits in the spatial decisions: where the viewer is placed, how close the camera gets, when the edit gives the scene room, and how the environment becomes part of the story.

The media carries the sense of proximity: the first impression is the finished experience, followed by the production detail that explains how it was made.