VR & Immersive
Explore our VR Programme
Following our passion for storytelling combined with emerging technologies in art, this year’s immersive programme is an exciting collection of award-winning experiences.
The programme will feature six VR & Immersive experiences presented in Greek premiere, produced over the last 18 months competing for the new AegeanFF VR Seahorse Award.
VR & Immersive Competition
Monday 21 - Friday 25 July • from 18.00 - 24.00 • Patmion VR Hall
The Dollhouse
Greek Premiere • VR, Animation • 23’ • 2025
Director: Desjardins, Dominic and Bruneau, Charlotte
Language: English, French
Subtitles: English
The Dollhouse is an unfolding paper world where 9-year-old Juniper untangles feelings of guilt around how her family treated Magnolia, a woman who came from far away to work as a cleaner in their house. This animated interactive VR tale explores how power dynamics are born within the intimacy of our homes. While reenacting memories with her dolls, Juniper grows ashamed of her actions and finds the courage to disagree with her parents and follow her heart. Will you help her ask for forgiveness?
EARTHS TO COME
Greek Premiere • Experimental Animation • 13’ • USA • 2024
Director: Rose Bond
Language: English
Subtitles: English
Earths to Come is a virtual journey, guided by spatialized sound and immersive animation, into the profound depths of a love poem. Painterly, penciled moving images, interweave with original vocal music conjuring a sense of intimate presence to find vastness and insularity in the simplicity of an 8-line poem by Emily Dickinson.
Impulse: Playing with Reality
Greek Premiere • Experimental Animation • 36’ • UK, France• 2024
Director: Abdalla, May and Murphy, Barry Gene
Language: English, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese
Subtitles: English
Exploring the extreme side of ADHD, Impulse: Playing the Reality brings together sharp-witted gameplay and dramatic first-hand accounts of people whose intense emotions lead them to a life on the edge. Leanne turns her world into a game to escape boredom. Omar’s chaotic mind focuses on masterminding risky heists. Errol creates a madcap persona to get respect. And Tara is on the brink of giving up. Their stories are brought home through Mixed Reality. Attempting to follow a train of thought, the stuff in your room sets off a chain reaction leading to all sorts of mayhem. Shadows on your walls become portals into labyrinthine worlds. Words spiral out into alternative meanings and possibilities. Highlighting the inner life of ADHD, Impulse focuses on the thrill of acting without thinking and the power of uncovering your own patterns.
Hungry (八洞妖/VR short
Greek Premiere • Animation, VR, Fantasy • 11’ • Taiwan • 2024
Director: Yu-shu Liu
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Subtitles: English
As the son of a glove puppetry master, Xiao Guo, after his parents’ divorce, could only accompany his father backstage during outdoor performances, often lacking stable meals and motherly care. During an outdoor performance to thank the gods, the puppet beside him suddenly came to life, glowing with a golden light, competing to take on the role of his mother…
Ito Meikyū
Greek Premiere • VR • 20’ • France, Luxembourg • 2024
Director: Boris Labbé
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Interior and exterior, transparency and opacity, exhibitionism and voyeurism, feminine and masculine; all these notions oppose or unite in the infinite cycle of a labyrinth with no exit. Life here is like a loom whose living weft is woven from a myriad of branching threads and paths.
The Contrast or illusion
Greek Premiere • VR • 6’ • Poland • 2024
Director: Mariusz Borzyszkowski
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We are exposed to evaluations every day, where the norm by which they are made are usually out of our hands.
The story explores what we face in a world dominated by mechanisms of rating, measuring, and judging. Is the evaluation truly systematic, or are the outcomes more random, shaped by factors beyond our control? This VR experience shifts the viewer role where they are not just an observer, but the one being judged.