Channelers — VR experience with six degrees of freedom

Channelers is a VR experience with six degrees of freedom (6DoF), set in a speculative Eastern European city from the times of the PRC. Users explore a brutalist-modernist residential complex from which there is seemingly no escape. Entering into a relationship with inhuman intelligence, they move through the corridors of a building in which concrete walls become portals to supernatural phenomena.

Embedded in a dreamcore aesthetic, combining the supernatural with an anthropological approach and the personal testimonies of those who have experienced first and third degree encounters, Channelers offers a deeply transformative experience of escaping from reality. The project explores the boundaries between agency, narrative and the mechanics of care and empathy, placing the audience in unique spaces filled with objects designed by outstanding Polish designers and outstanding Polish designers of the PRL period.

The script of the work is based on the research of Polish ufologists Bronisław Rzepecki and Krzysztof Piechota and was developed in cooperation with Mateusz Kijewski — a historian specializing in UFO/UAP history and leading the largest channel in Poland devoted to this topic — Canal o UFO (Sekielski Brothers Studio).

The project was developed as part of the prestigious Biennale College Cinema Immersive program.

Regisseur Jakub Wróblewski

Produced by Anna Szylar, Monster Mind Studio

Historian & Researcher Mateusz Kijewski

VR Supervisor Andrey Chodera-Isakov

EU Programme Consultant Piotr Wardyński

EU Artist Agnieszka Suchocka

3D Artist Maja Liskowski

3D Artist Mateusz Wolniaczyk

Audio Interaction Paweł Uszyński, Folia Studio

Sound Supervisor Dorota Blasczak

Composer Stefan Węgłowski

Graphic Designer Renata Hotyka

Set Designer Jakub Marzoch