Virtual Reality

Dive into the untold story of a D-Day combat cameraman through the moving journey of his daughter piecing together the legacy he never shared. This 20-minute VR experience blends cinematic storytelling with immersive technologies to bring the past back to life.

VR experience reimagines the stories of a building with a history spanning over 100 years in Shanghai, China, whose residents were compelled to move out due to an ongoing gentrification policy. This project addresses the perceptions of the past and present, the fluidity of archives, and the meanings of ruins.

When 11-year-old Songjeol shouted “Don't ever come back!” to her beloved cousin, she didn't know it would be their last moment together. Now, 75 years after fleeing North Korea, her story illuminates the enduring wounds of a generation whose families were cleaved apart by war, leaving only dreams as their bridge across the divide.

With a queer mycelial guide, this 9-minute interactive VR experience invites viewers to discover themselves through interactive fungal landscapes, where science and sensuality collide, revealing the hidden allure of the Earth. This sci-fi journey of ecological self-discovery follows the reproductive cycle of fungi. Like a spore, the viewer descends into fertile soil, encounters mushroom-human hybrids, and touches other spores that release tailor-made AI-generated ecological-erotic poetry. The journey culminates in an emergence into the global climate system. The work unravels the boundaries between human and non-human life.

A VR interactive narrative about ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), blending joys, anxieties, and growing pains into a hand-drawn, coloured-pencil journey. It poetically reveals neurodiverse imagination and offers audiences a deeper understanding of ADHD.

An interactive VR experience about a young girl struggling with depression and anxiety. Set in a desert landscape, it presents a metaphorical world, with visuals created by artist Naima Karim, inspired by her own experience with her daughter’s depression and anxiety. The audience embarks on an immersive journey through the young girl’s mind, using hand tracking interaction, spatial audio, original music, and a haptic vest. Through hand tracking, viewers are encouraged to help her overcome her challenges. However, accepting one’s own problems and receiving help from others is not easy for someone suffering from depression and anxiety. The work sheds light on the often misunderstood reality of these conditions, and evokes empathy and understanding.

Shelter is a virtual reality documentary directed by Sjors Swierstra and co-directed by Ivanna Khitsinska that offers an intimate look into the war in Ukraine. The film immerses viewers in everyday scenes: a tender conversation between pregnant women in a Kyiv maternity ward, a soldier’s funeral in Lviv, tense preparations in frontline barracks, and an opera orchestra’s performance in a Kharkiv basement. Shelter invites audiences to share virtual space with Ukrainians, witnessing moments of shared humanity and reflecting on the profound cost of war.

In the 1970s, amidst the chaos of the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge genocide, a refugee crisis emerged in Indochina. Taiwan established an Indochinese refugee camp in Penghu, but this chapter of history is missing from the UN’s records as if it were hidden and forgotten. The VR experience tells the story of two young Vietnamese sisters who fled Vietnam with their family during the war.

For three months now, Candice has been exploding every day – sometimes several times a day, with a record of seven explosions in one day. She has now had 192 explosions. Through a visually immersive VR experience, creative duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel depict her unstoppable anger as a disturbing reflection of a world on the brink of collapse.

The award-winning VR experience follows up its success with two powerful new episodes. Using minimalist animation and real-life interviews, it explores reproductive rights through intimate stories to foster empathy and challenge stigma.

Trans-composition is a poetic, immersive, interactive VR experience, a spatial reflection journey of introspection, shaped through shifting perspectives and layered existences. This work invites viewers to step into a metaphysical house — an invisible architecture shaped by duality and transformation. Within its walls, each room unfolds as part of a larger symbolic design, where light, shadow, and voice gently uncover the concealed layers of the self. This house is also a living board, echoing the ancient game of Go.