* Special screening for Ars Electronica Festival 2020. Valid until Oct 15, 2020.
Honorary Mention in the Computer Animation category of Prix Ars Electronica 2020.
Special Mention of 2019 Kaohsiung Film Festival.
Bodyless is a surreal VR experience based on the director's childhood memory during Taiwan’s martial law period in the 1970s, when human qualities were simplified and quantified with few characteristics recognized and measured by the ruling class. The player becomes a deceased political prisoner's ghost in his journey to find his way home.
Although the era has long gone, the emerging digital technologies follows suit. Governments started to use new technologies like digital surveillance, big data and AI as means to monitor and control people. Powerful world leader uses tweets less than 140 characters to set the course for his country. Human beings are reduced to a few pixels on the screen and left to...
