Mystis
Synopsis
The Underworld moves through different facets of grief: a rave where silhouettes dance in slow motion, indifferent to Echo's attempts to reach them; a frozen sea where giant statues crack open to release a buried memory of a lost mother; a shadow theatre where an anger monster is unleashed, reducing everything to embers.
From the embers, a boat carries you into a vast darkness, where Mother appears, and they are finally reunited. You sail together to the Tree of Life, a bioluminescent, cosmic jungle. Echo begs her to return to the World of the Living, but ancestors appear and surround you. She cannot come back - the journey was never about bringing her back. Echo, revealed to be your own child self, dissolves around you as the hole fills with light.
Details
- Year
- 2028
- Type of project
- XR / Immersive
- Running time
- 20 mins
- Format
- Cinematic PCVR / Immersive Experience
- Director
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Tatiana Collet Apraxine
- Producer
- Alina Mikhaleva
- Co-Producer
- Alysha Nelson
- Screenwriter
- Tatiana Collet Apraxine, Ruth Mariner
- Sound
- Billy Mello
- Composer
- Jay Chakravorty
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Onism Studio Limited
31 Mill StreetSE1 2AX London
UK
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