Case study
Free UR Head
Key Collaborator
Wearing VR headsets, participants follow visual and sound cues to move together in a live, unrehearsed choreography guided by a performer.
Awards & Selections
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Beyond Reality — New Media Selection
Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN)
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Professional Performance Design — Shortlist (Tung-Yen Chou)
World Stage Design, Sharjah
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Venice Immersive — In Competition
81st Venice International Film Festival
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Highlights — Swiss Premiere
Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF)
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Immersive Projects — Selected
Venice Gap-Financing Market
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XR Spotlight — World Premiere
Kaohsiung Film Festival
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The Challenge
Enable people encountering the work for the first time to become a collective performance through head movements, without rehearsal.
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My Contribution
- Served as a key collaborator, working with Ankh Interaction Design, CrtlS and Very Theatre on the participatory XR performance.
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System & Decisions
- Guide head movements through audiovisual cues in the headset so participants form a shared rhythm.
- Use a live performer to connect the headset participants with the audience watching around them.
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Result
- World premiere at the 2023 Kaohsiung Film Festival.
- The 2024 international version entered the Venice Immersive competition and had its Swiss premiere at GIFF.
- Selected for BIFAN Beyond Reality in 2026.
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Credits
- Director
- CHOU Tung-Yen
- Key collaborators
- Jacki (Chun-Ju) Chen / Chuan-Ren Tsai
- Development & design teams
- Ankh Interaction Design Ltd. / CrtlS Ltd.
- Production
- Very Theatre / Very Mainstream Studio