With Chile in my Bones

This is an immersive Virtual Reality experience where animation adopts spatialized features in 3d and 2d. There are interactive elements as well to perform the narrative time-line. The users must explore and walk the environment to unfold the animated scenes. The environment acts as an immersive expanded screen deploying the stories as spatialized interactions. The colorful graphics portrait a whimsical rendition of Chile during the early 1970s, and the events that unleashed the tragedy suffered by thousands after the coup d'état through a forced exile. The narrative foreground rather the emotions and feelings of a universal uproot, and nostalgic existential insights from the view on an actor-artists.

In a country in the very end of the south latitude flanked by a big ocean and an extended mountains range, lived Oscar, a poet, a performer, a painter, a creator living his dreams and hopes, immersed in the primal kindness of his countrymen fighting and wishing for a better world.

Oscar life was filled with the realizations provided by a free spirited and creative soul.

He did not see what was coming, an incommensurable hate from the intestines of an ancient class of ravens not willing to forgive the eloquence of his voice claiming for justice and the beauty of art for all.

Oscar was attacked and persecuted for these despicable foes, pushing him to the fringes of the ignominy, and granting him only escape route of expatriation.

His journey was accepted with resignation, but with hope as well. Traveling through the waves of uncertainty and realization, he found safe shelter and friendly surroundings to develop his projects and illusions.

But his inner feelings always yearned for distant latitudes of oceanic and telluric emotions from where he was always earth, flesh and bones. Despite his unwilling pilgrimage of ancient and fabled traditions, he languished for what was no longer there.

One day he realized that in his bones, he was carrying all he was longing for, and that his home was a suitcase containing all the dreams, places, memories, and an immense inventory of topographic nostalgia. So, his story begins…