Movies: Virtual reality

Teenage Mila begins to lose her grip on reality as a globally popular augmented reality video game starts glitching feverishly with increasingly dangerous real-world consequences....

When a goth teenager named Geraldine hits a dog with her car, things take an unexpected, almost surreal turn. After seeing the dog will itself to cross the road to survive, Geraldine has to answer the question for herself: Will she get up and fight t...

Director Grant Scicluna jumps into VR with an adaptation of one of the tales from Jack Heath’s short-story collection 300 Minutes of Danger. Here, in a potentially deadly case of mistaken identity, Nassim is poisoned and must engage in a heart-pumpin...

Exquisite Corpse was an image and language parlour game played by the Surrealists, which asked players to collectively write or draw a story or picture, with only limited knowledge of the other players’ contributions. Translating the original game in...

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Incarcerated participants in a mental health experiment watch videos of sunset-soaked beaches, wildflowers and forests on loop, prompting them to reflect on isolation and wilderness. Equal parts meditation and provocation, Blue Room identifies the da...

After tragedy strikes, a meek Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead. Little does she know that this game treats all girls as a virus as she fights to save herself....

Cathline, Ines and Marie have been visiting the metaverse for years. The three young women explore these virtual worlds where everything is possible: friendship, love, and sexuality. In the heart of breathtaking settings, they push the boundaries of ...

A 2003 documentary study of mainstream Cyberpunk films of the 1980s created by director Andrew J. Holden. The film uses the structure of literary theorist Northrop Frye to describe the common, repeating stories in Western culture, and how Cyberpunk c...

A boy wakes up to find a note left on his door, warning him to complete a task. He begins to find strange things around him, and he feels like someone or something is watching him as he does....

This video shows results from a research project involving simulated Darwinian evolutions of virtual block creatures. A population of several hundred creatures is created within a supercomputer, and each creature is tested for their ability to perfor...

Franz works for the Japanese, but makes a mistake and the corporation condemns him to wander through a harrowing virtual setting....

A mother's perception of reality is altered forever when her son decides to leave the family home....

Power Surge is a trans-temporal 80s-fueled adventure. A young nerd aims to go where no nerd has gone before, attempting the impossible - beating Power Surge. With a little help from his older self....

Julio is a virtual reality programmer who is given the chance to experiment an illusion that is completely real....

AVATARA is not a cartoon. It's a documentary about an Internet subculture who spend their lives immersed in an online 3-D voice-chat program called "Digitalspace Traveler." Through a series of 14 interviews, we uncover the history, art, identities, s...

In 2035, a year full of violence and criminal activity, a hard working businessman, Oscar, returns home to his AI robot installed house. To make sure he is able to defend himself from any potential threat, Oscar practices self defense on a fighting s...

In this immersive, multi-sensory experience guests will experience the complete life-cycle of mushrooms. Starting as a spore floating to the forest floor, you become an integral part of this essential, live-giving process....

Shot entirely on location in California maximum security prisons, Step to the Line is a virtual reality documentary that aims to provoke a transformation in the spectator’s eyes about prisoners, the prison system, and even themselves. In this project...

In this short science-fiction film, two men are far away from home. Ray and Brad alleviate their homesickness by watching home movies that were shot from their perspective. By means of virtual reality goggles, Ray sees his wife and children play on t...