Traversing The Mist － VR

Inside a surreal gay sauna, you find yourself in the body of a young Taiwanese man. You venture into this dreamscape, woven by desires, excitements and fears, crossing eyes with the other sauna-goers who all have the same faces. As you walk along every floor, corridor and room, each layer of the maze irreversibly unravels behind your back. Eventually everything disappears. With Traversing the Mist, CHOU Tung-Yen pushes the boundaries of real-time XR technology and narrative, and expands the VR360 film In the Mist into a 6DoF multi-user experience.

Taking "In the Mist" as the starting point, director Zhou Tong Yen extended the same gay sauna virtual scene in the 6DoF XR work "Traversing The Mist", inviting the audience to wander and explore various spaces, gradually becoming part of an anonymous group, and embarking on a journey through virtual flesh and real desires.

2023 DocLab Competition for Immersive Non-Fiction / International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), The Netherlands​​​​

​​​ 2024 XR Competition - The Grand Prize / NewImages Festival, France​ Immersive Competition / Festival de Cannes, France VR Theatre / SIGGRAPH, U.S. XR Competition / Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan