BLON VR

Discover a world of magic and wonder in which the boundaries of time, space and human emotions blur, offering an immersive and unique journey like no other. Experience thought-provoking narratives and immerse yourself in an emotive visual world that captivates your senses and fuels your creativity.

Once you have made your reservation (valid only with accreditation), you will be guaranteed a seat at a time convenient to you. This way you won't have to waste time queuing. More info here.

Participants:
Monika Masłoń

Monika Masłoń

Poland

Monika Masłoń is a visual artist and art educator whose work explores the intersection of experimental film, digital media, and sensory experience. She holds a Ph.D. from the Łódź Film School, and her works, including the VR experience Control Negative (DOK Leipzig 2022), have been presented internationally. She is currently developing the documentary installation Feeling Touched, exploring touch and human connection, and the multi-user VR experience Ocean, inspired by Stanisław Lem’s novel Solaris.

Adelė Bakšienė

Adelė Bakšienė

Lithuania

Adelė Bakšienė is the Cultural Activities Manager and Communications Specialist at the Antanas Baranauskas and Antanas Vienuolis-Žukauskas Memorial Museum in Lithuania. She is passionate about finding contemporary ways to make cultural heritage, history, and literature engaging and accessible to diverse audiences. At BLON Festival, she will present the museum’s latest virtual reality experience, The Forest Awakens, an immersive journey inspired by the work of Lithuanian poet Antanas Baranauskas.

Menghui Huang

Menghui Huang

Finland

Menghui Huang is a Helsinki-based XR director and visual artist from China, with a background in New Media Art and VR animation. Her VR project The Big Cube premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and has since screened internationally. Beyond VR, she is an award-winning visual artist recognized by the World Illustration Awards and ADC Annual Awards. Her work explores imaginary worlds and seeks new ways to tell stories through color, shape, and immersive experience.

Partners:
Darkening
Darkening

2022 · Czechia, Germany · 25 min

How is the world perceived by someone with depression? The animated immersive film uses virtual reality to address depression and the ways to cope with it. Director and protagonist Ondřej guides us through diverse landscapes associating the story of his struggle with depression since puberty. We share his feelings during the first depressive episodes at a family trip in his childhood, at university when striving for perfect results, at work in his everyday fights with the depressive “darkening”.

Director:
Ondřej Moravec
Screenwriter:
Ondřej Moravec
Producer:
Hana Blaha Šilarová (Frame Films)
Company:
Frame Films, Brainz Immersive, NowHere Media
Jack & Flo
Jack & Flo

2024 · France · 14 min

Jack, a former lighthouse keeper in the prime of his life, lives in isolation on his cliff-bound island, lost in the middle of the ocean. He leads a peaceful existence at the top of the island, surrounded by his home, the lighthouse and a small tree. It seems that Jack may be the last human being. One day, while fishing from the edge of the cliff, he accidentally encounters a large white pelican stranded on his island. A story of friendship begins, profoundly transforming Jack’s daily life.

Director:
Amaury Campion
Screenwriter:
Amaury Campion, Clément Cerles
Company:
Studio Geppetto
CONTROL NEGATIVE
CONTROL NEGATIVE

2022 · Poland · 25 min

The experience explores the loss of control. Using VR, it places the viewer in a state of frustration, helplessness, and disorientation, revealing the illusion of being fully in control of one's life. As the experience gradually breaks down through delay, misalignment, and glitches, grief emerges as a bodily condition. Set in a negative version of the real world, it becomes a space for better understanding oneself. Across seven chapters, it shifts from physical activity to contemplation.

Director:
Monika Masłoń
Screenwriter:
Monika Masłoń, Rafał Kotas
Producer:
Krzysztof Franek, Krzysztof Pijarski, Pola Borkiewicz, Jacek Nagłowski
Company:
VnLab
The Big Cube
The Big Cube

2025 · Finland · 7 min

A world is made of cubes. The creatures there always follow instructions and push cubes numbly. Yet, when one of them chooses not to follow the instructions after discovering another path, something unexpected happens.

Director:
Menghui Huang
Screenwriter:
Menghui Huang
Company:
RE:ANIMA Joint Master
The Forest Awakens
The Forest Awakens

2025 · Lithuania · 9 min

A Virtual Reality experience that brings the Forest of Anykščiai to life through the world of Antanas Baranauskas's celebrated poem. Guided by the forest's inhabitants, viewers soar above the treetops, discover the rich diversity of wildlife on land and beneath the water, and witness the forest's changing moods from day to night. The experience reflects Baranauskas's vision of the forest's loss and his hope for its renewal.

Company:
Asterman LT, UAB
Eyes of Shame
Eyes of Shame

2026 · Lithuania, France, Croatia · 40 min

A boiled egg on the plate. An ordinary word. A familiar sound. EYES OF SHAME places the viewer inside the mind of 14-year-old Eyeless in a hospital for troubled teenagers. When a Nurse forces her to eat the egg, unfinished memories begin to hijack the present. The viewer is carried through the fragmented flow of Eyeless's thoughts as they move between the hospital and her childhood.

Director:
Tomas Tamošaitis
Screenwriter:
Tomas Tamošaitis, Emmanuel Rouglan
Producer:
Tomas Tamošaitis, Emmanuel Rouglan, Laura Almantaitė
Company:
Afterimage, Insomniak, Minya Film and Animation