eXHIBITION


A Long Goodbye

A Long Goodbye is an animated, interactive VR experience about Ida, a 72-year-old pianist living with dementia. Stepping into her fading reality, memories awaken through objects and recordings of her husband Daniel, revealing love, loss, and their shared struggle as time grows short.
Director:
Kate Voet, Victor Maes
Gargoyle Doyle

Doyle (Jason Isaacs) is a grouchy, self-important gargoyle, chipped during a fall above a cathedral entrance. Banished to a back alcove with other misfits, he resents his fate—especially being stuck just two feet from Chet (Haley Joel Osment), a decorative metal rain gutter.
Director:
Ethan Shaftel
Origen

Origen is a poetic, narrative VR journey through the Amazon Rainforest. Through first-person interaction inspired by Mokán’s reflections, it explores how we perceive our lives and coexist with nature. This first chapter celebrates dialogue between diverse territories, life forms, and Mother Earth.
Director:
Emilia Sánchez Chiquetti
Fabula Rasa: Dead Man Talking

Imprisoned in a medieval town, you await judgment for crimes of your own invention. Surrounded by eccentric townsfolk with conflicting desires, you must sway them to plead your case before the king arrives. Shaped entirely by your choices, no two journeys unfold the same.
Director:
Luiza Justus, Marcelo Marcati
Floating Cities

Villes Flottantes (Floating Cities) is an augmented reality sound artwork by Elsa Mroziewicz and Cécile Palusinski, presented across six monumental panels. The project offers a poetic vision of floating cities while introducing audiences to scientific and social responses to ecological challenges.
Director:
Cécile Palusinski, Elsa Mroziewicz
Lesbian Simulator

Lesbian Simulator is an interactive VR artwork and game exploring love, sexuality, and queer identity. Guided by a narrator, users enter a poetic world to discover orientation, experience coming out, go on dates, and face both violence and the embrace of queer community.
Director:
Iris van der Meule
Heartbeat

HeartBeat, Son cœur a trouvé sa cadence dans le silence des rencontres is an immersive performance exploring human connection via heartbeats. It creates a nonverbal encounter between two participants sharing heartrates. In sync or not this universal language conveys emotion.
Director:
Fanny Fortage
Dance Dance Dance – Matisse

An immersive, dance-led journey into Henri Matisse’s world, inspired by his lifelong fascination with movement. Featuring original choreography by Sarah Silverblatt-Buser, the experience invites participants inside iconic works like La Danse, exploring the vibrant motion and color behind his masterpieces.
Director:
Agnès Molia, Gordon
Revival Roadshow

Set in a speculative future museum, a mysterious artwork sparks a darkly absurd journey through fake news, consumerism, nationalism, and climate collapse. Framed as an interactive appraisal show, gaze-controlled narratives compete for attention, questioning which stories shape our future.
Director:
Anne Fehres, Luke Conroy
Eggscape

Eggscape is a mixed reality experience about a terrified little egg fighting to survive in a hostile world. Players control their egg across surreal arenas, blending VR and the real world to battle enemies, outsmart opponents, and build paths through playful, chaotic environments.
Director:
German Heller
First Virtual Suit

In a near future where avatars are part of daily life, First Virtual Suit follows a young person creating their first digital self. What begins as experimentation becomes a journey of self-discovery, as memories and insecurities surface and the virtual body becomes a mirror to the self.
Director:
Kazuki Yuhara
Masquerade. Chapter 1: The Pillaro Devil Dance

A VR documentary that uses dance and a mask to immerse users in the origins of Ecuador’s Píllaro Devil Dance. Set in the Andes, the experience shifts through movement and interaction, inviting participants to learn, explore, and play within this vibrant cultural tradition.
Director:
Juan Pablo Urgilés
ATOMS & BITS' Karaoke Bash!

Atoms & Bits Karaoke Bash! is a real-time audiovisual installation where visitors join the band on stage through full-body and face capture. Singing karaoke-style lyrics inside the Atoms & Bits universe, participants transform digital literacy into a playful performance about online deception.
Director:
Felipe Aguilar
Impulse

Impulse is a creative tool for choreographers to explore large-scale movement and spatial composition beyond traditional rehearsal. As an Unreal Engine plug-in, it uses motion capture and real-time 3D to expand the studio into a flexible digital space for multiplying and refining movement.
Director:
Brandon Powers


MARKET

DeMaré, a sensory journey into the depths of the ocean

DeMaré is a mixed- and virtual-reality journey into the living memory of the ocean. Moving between a coastal fishing hut and immersive underwater worlds, it weaves artisanal knowledge with marine science. Participants shift between human and marine perspectives to explore how beings perceive and relate to the sea.
Director:
Emilia Sánchez Chiquetti
Raw Nerve

Raw-nerved is an immersive 360° dome film about an industrial machine awakening inside a human body. Existing only through light and resonance, she navigates shifting organic landscapes of breath and neural tension, discovering empathy and sensation within a fragile, mediated form.
Director:
Salome Chatriot
Chocolate Milk

Jonathan, a 38-year-old man with autism, invites viewers into his inner world. As everyday moments become overwhelming, memories transform into immersive sensory landscapes shaped by fear, music, and perfect pitch, revealing how safety, breath, and empathy help him navigate reality.
Director:
Sonja Bozic, Jonathan Weiner
BBL Drizzy

In a dystopian world where social media clout determines fate, Jrue, a young creator from Caplanta’s underbelly, must climb a ruthless hierarchy of fame to save his ailing mother, confront his estranged royal father, and defy a system that prizes influence over truth.
Director:
Willonius Hatcher
Black, White + the Sacred Third

Black, White + the Sacred Third is a surreal black-and-white VR artwork exploring polarity and transformation through spatial narrative, sound, and symbolic imagery. Participants enter a liminal world where opposing forces coexist, opening a third space of embodied insight and integration.
Director:
Summer Powell



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