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Taiwan｜2024｜VR360｜Colour｜25min｜No Dialogue｜Mandarin, English Subtitle｜15 Seats | General Audience

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★ 2024 ART*VR BEST VR EXPERIENCE AWARD
★ 2024 GENEVA FILM FESTIVAL IN-COMPETITION

 

 

REALM OF SILENCE, DEATH LIES STILL.
MALEVOLENCE SURROUNDS, THEY CHOOSE TO HIDE.

《LIMBOPHOBIA》 is director Wen-Yee Hsieh’s second VR personal project, once again immersing the audience in his intense dark aesthetics. he opens another gate, and the city he’s taken up residence in darkens, surrounded by black waters and haunted by fear. A unique one-man project that quietly and uncomfortably shows the darkness of how far humanity can go in its quest for invincibility.

Limbophobia opens with a dramatic quote from the book Will Grayson, Will Grayson: “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.” This spiritual crisis in a dark border region forms the introduction to Wen-Yee Hsieh’s misty nocturnal world in which visitors finds themselves in twilight zones of existential terror. The powerful black and white graphics making up this hallucinatory world blur the boundaries between the real and the digital, the solid and the ephemeral, the eternal and the temporary. What starts as a glance through a misty window on a storm-swept beach turns into a wild ride into increasingly unstable realities rocked by explosions and collapsing buildings. All this is accompanied by music that sounds like the slow breath of the collective unconscious.

 

 

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  • Wen-Yee Hsieh is a young artist from Taiwan, who poses questions about the relationship between visual art, and
    architecture. Fascinated by supernatural beings, his works reflect social phenomena and the mystery of life. HSIEH
    injected himself into works of art, that form a line of energy questioning the individual's state against the
    environment.
    Hsieh’s VR debut ”LIMBOTOPIA in VR” (2021) was nominated by 2022 Tribeca Festival, and won the Best VR Prize at
    2022 AniFilm in the Czech Republic. In 2024, he was once again selected by 2024 Tribeca Festival Immersive section,
    creating the infinity mirror installations《THE GREAT FILTER》 and《INVISIBLE THEM》for the art museum
    Mercer Labs in New York.
    Hsieh’s second VR work, “LIMBOPHOBIA” (2024), was selected by several prominent European festivals, including
    SXSW London 2025, the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF) 2024, and IDFA DocLab 2024. It was awarded Best
    VR Experience at ART*VR 2024 and received the Best Artistic Feature Award at DOME FEST WEST 2025 in the United
    States. In 2025, he was also invited to serve as jury member for the VR competition at the Sehsüchte International
    Film Festival in Germany.
    In 2025, Hsieh was selected for the 10th Biennale College Cinema - Immersive at the Venice International Film
    Festival. He was awarded the prestigious artist residency at CENTQUATRE-PARIS | Villa Formose for 2025.
    Hsieh founded WEN-E STUDIO, focusing more deeply on themes such as consciousness, spirituality, and the
    supernatural, while also collaborating with other artists in designing XR content.
    In 2021, he collaborated with artist WenChi Su on the work “Blackhole Museum + Body Browser”(2021), exploring
    how gravity in the physical world can be translated into the digital realm and influence human bodily perception.
    In 2025, the second collaboration with YILAB x WenChi Su on the VR project “Sensing Dark Matter”(2025) premiered
    at Asia TOPA 2025 in Melbourne.

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