Traversing the Mist

2024影展

R 18 +

CHOU Tung-yen
Taiwan
Interactive VR , Multi-user Interactive VR
2023
Color
30min

Nominees and Awards

★ 2024 NewImages Festival / XR Competition / Grand Prize
★ 2024 Cannes Film Festival / Immersive Competition
★ 2023 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam / DocLab

Synopsis

Inside a surreal gay sauna you find yourself embodied in the body of a young Taiwanese man. You venture into this dreamscape, woven by desires, excitements and fears, crossing eyes with the other sauna-goers who all have the same faces. As you walk along every floor, corridor and room, each layer of the maze irreversibly unravels behind your back. Eventually everything disappears. With Traversing the Mist, CHOU Tung-Yen pushes the boundaries of real-time XR technology and narrative, and expands the VR360 film In the Mist into a 6DoF multi-user experience.

Team

Director

CHOU Tung-yen

CHOU Tung-yen is an award-winning theatre, film and XR maker from Taiwan. He focuses on envisioning new ways of experiencing narrative through the use of new media. His VR360 work In the Mist and XR public choreography project Free Your Head were respectively selected for the 78th and 81st Venice Film Festival.

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