Nowhere to Belong
An interactive VR documentary about derussification in Ukraine.
In development. First chapter in 2027, full release in 2028.
A Ukrainian photographer comes home to write a book about her country. You conduct her interviews: real people, filmed during the war in volumetric video, in places captured in 3D.
You conduct the interviews
You are Yuliia
She left Odesa at eighteen and lives in Paris. She comes back to write a book of interviews about how Ukrainians take back their language and their history.
Ask the questions
You choose what Yuliia asks. The answers come from real people, interviewed in Kyiv and Odesa.
Catch the words that matter
A sentence, a name, an object. You keep them in Yuliia’s paper notebook.
Connect them in her mind palace
The rooms of her memory are painted by hand. The links you make become the chapters of her book.
Every place is a Gaussian splat: millions of coloured particles recorded on location, which you walk through in the headset. Every person is filmed in volumetric video.
- XR Coproduction Sessions, Geneva International Film Festival, November 2026
- Writing grant from the CNC immersive creation fund, September 2026
- XR-Creative writing residency, Magélis and Cnam-Enjmin, Angoulême, July 2026
- Research and capture trip to Kyiv and Odesa, June 2026
- Volumetric test shoot at French Touch Factory, Paris, April 2026
- Best Immersive Film, XRCC 2025 (first demo)
Avec le soutien du Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée