Impact Stories

A selection of local Digital Storytelling and Immersive Non-Fiction work from the Immersive Exhibition. Join us to celebrate and experience local Wellington Impact Storytelling. Featuring seven local Immersive Projects (six World Premieres).

Atuatanga
Wiremu Grace | 2024 VR Game | New Zealand
Atuatanga is an immersive experience like no other. Virtual reality guides you deep into a Māori world view, showing future destruction if we don’t act now. Using cutting edge technology from Meta Quest and the Unreal Engine, Atuatanga lets you see, hear and feel the journey of the Atua.

Beyond the Thread
Henry MacKenzie | 2024 | Mixed Interactive | New Zealand
Beyond the Thread is an interactive immersive experience. The protagonist embarks on a thrilling journey in VR, transcending time to unravel the secrets of humanity through encounters with characters powered by AI.

Deja VR
Ed Davis | 2024 | VR Interactive | New Zealand
A series of cinematic room-scale VR scenes play out and begin to loop until the viewer finds the sweet spot that will advance the narrative.

Knowledge Flows
Johnson Witehira |2022 | Mixed Immersive | New Zealand
He pīriti mai i te Ao Matihiko ki Te Ao Māori. In the project The Spaces Between us, 2022, Toronto, a global indigenous-led project explores how digital and new media art, created through innovative workshops and symposia, might create new paradigms for indigenous community engagement. Experience new adaptions of some of these digital artworks through pop up projector activations.


LBC Holopresence
Ed Davis | 2024 | Mixed Immersive | New Zealand
Live three-piece guitars-ambisonics fed into room-scale brutalist VR architecture as live holograms. The experience gets intimate with a recorded live performance with a VR environment and experience.

Metramorphosis
Laura Emel Yilmaz | 2024 | Mixed Interactive | New Zealand
A touch-based interactive video/art/game, a meditation on motherhood as an encounter between Self and Other through the image of the mother-as-mirror. This phase of the project is a vertical slice, one of three total vignettes.

Pacific Dance NZ MOANA
Ed Davis, Iosefa Enari | 2024 |VR Film | Aotearoa NZ (PP4)
Pacific Dance NZ presents two worldviews of Pacific culture in Aotearoa through dance and camera. Captured by cinematographer Ed Davis and director Iosefa Enari
1) Tala Tu'upua explores the relevance of Tongan mythology in Aotearoa. Choreographed by Losaline Tupou
2) Unheard Of is a solo work by NZ born Samoan contemporary dancer Laifa James Ta'ala and shot in a single take.