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Speculum Animarum (2021)

1-channel HD-video made with Virtual Reality.




Speculum Animarum (2021) is a Virtual Reality short film about discovering and examining the materiality of digital worlds. Our protagonist takes her first steps into a strange new world, experiencing the possibilities and limitations of her avatar body and the materiality and physicality of her virtually bizarre surroundings. What secrets will this digital realm reveal to her? Is there something hidden beyond the true and the false of a coded reality? Does virtual worlds have a nature in themselves?