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Mystis

A pale child-like figure floats in a dark, cavernous underwater space beneath a rippling blue-lit ceiling.
A pale child character looks over their shoulder in a dim, candlelit hall with ghostly translucent figures in the background.

Synopsis

You awaken on a fog-shrouded shoreline and meet Echo, a strange child with a hole in their stomach. Together you cross a lantern festival where the veil between worlds is thinnest, sail into an ocean that opens beneath you, and descend through a portal into the Underworld.
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.
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Details

Year
2028
Type of project
XR / Immersive
Running time
20 mins
Format
Cinematic PCVR / Immersive Experience
Director
Tatiana Collet Apraxine
Producer
Alina Mikhaleva
Co-Producer
Alysha Nelson
Screenwriter
Tatiana Collet Apraxine, Ruth Mariner
Sound
Billy Mello
Composer
Jay Chakravorty

Genre

Docufiction Experimental Fantasy Music Woman Director

Categories

Animation Artist Project and Video / Experimental

Production Status

Pre-production

Production Company

Onism Studio Limited

31 Mill Street
SE1 2AX London
UK

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