Immersive
Thur 10 – Sat 12 July | 10:00 – 16:00 | Galmont & Town Hall Studio
This year’s immersive programme features an expanded and exciting international line-up of innovative VR experiences.
Curated in partnership with the Centre for Creative Technologies at the University of Galway and 4E Virtual Design.
All I Know About Teacher Li
2024 | USA | 20 mins
All I Know About Teacher Li is a 20-minute interactive mixed reality documentary unveiling how a Chinese art student in Italy sparked one of the largest democratic protests in China by relentlessly sharing bad news on Twitter. The experience blends hand-drawn animation, 3D converted archival footage, and immersive interaction to place viewers within Teacher Li’s transformative journey and explore the global impact of social media activism.
The Dollhouse
2025 | Luxembourg | 20mins
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 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?
Emperor
2023 | France | 45mins
Emperor is an interactive and narrative experience in virtual reality, which invites the user to travel inside the brain of a father who is suffering from aphasia. Alongside his daughter, we journey into the father’s mental space—imagined as a hand-drawn, monochrome landscape—as she seeks to learn more about his inner self, now obscured by illness.
Impulse: Playing with Reality
2024 | France, UK | 40mins
Impulse is a revolutionary, playful mixed-reality experience that aims to show the world as seen by people with ADHD.
Mammary Mountain
2024 | Ireland/UK | 23mins
An intimate and visceral performative VR experience exploring dis-ease within the body and the land through the breast cancer treatment journey.
Oto’s Planet
2024 | Luxembourg | 28mins
What Oto loves most is to lie on his hammock eating the fruits of the single tree of his little world. This peaceful calm is disturbed by the fall of a small spacecraft from which Exo, an hyperactive and bulky cosmonaut, comes out. Communication and cohabi-tation between the two new roommates turn out to be difficult, nay impossible.
Sit Stand Smoke
2024 | Ireland | 18mins
Set in 1921 and the present day, SIT STAND SMOKE inhabits three interlocking worlds.
Exploring motivations for artist Seán Keating to create his iconic Irish War of Independence painting Men Of The South; SIT STAND SMOKE advocates a quiet revolution that could still rise from a host of lost promises from 100 years ago.
Provocative, poignant, personal, shot in 360 stereoscopic + volumetric capture; this 18 minute immersive experience unfolds in a fine-art packing crate, a VR studio casting session, a ghostly encounter, and the lush Irish landscape.
FRANCE IN FOCUS programme presented in association with the French Embassy in Ireland.
