WHAT THE FOX
In this VR experience, users experience an emotional, interactive journey through the city at night as a Berlin city fox - with encounters, dangers and a new perspective on urban life. Stay tuned!
DIRECTOR
Sina Ataeian Dena
AUTHOR
Lea Luttenberger
Sina Ataeian Dena
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
in production 2026
GENRE
VR Experience
FUNDERS
Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
FFF Bayern
MDM Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
Stiftung Naturschutz
Grün Berlin
MARKETS
Venice Biennale College Cinema Immersive
UNITED XR Booster 2025 - Arrival Space Prize
DEVICE
Meta Quest 3
NUMBER OF PLAYERS
Single-player
AVERAGE PLAYING TIME
10 min
EXHIBITION VR
LBE / STANDALONE
medium scale
LANGUAGE
Voice-over in several languages
Voice-to-fox-language-processing
as part of the experience
VISUAL STYLE
3D Gaussian Splatting, realistic nighttime environment, slight overexposure, and bright neon lights
THE SPIRIT OF A THING
Equal parts reimagining, recreation, and new encounter, THE SPIRIT OF A THING speculatively explores the daily life of a musician who has been traveling on the road for decades in order to ruminate on the slippage between memory and time, truth and inner experience. Drawing inspiration from the East German leg of Louis Armstrong’s renowned 1965 European tour, TSOAT seeks to transmit the granular feelings from this moment into the present by attending to fleeting yet enduring scenes of intimacy, friendship, and ritual, while simultaneously blurring the line between fact and fiction, the contemporary and the archival.
The Spirit of a Thing will be on view at Das Minsk in Potsdam, Germany as part of the exhibition “I’ve Seen the Wall” curated by Paola Malavassi and Jason Moran from Sept. 2023 through Feb. 2024.
DIRECTOR
Darol Olu Kae
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
GENRE
a single-channel video installation
CO PRODUCTION
Somesuch
COMMISSIONED BY
Das Minsk Museum Potsdam