Journey Between Worlds

Featured image: Diana Vander Meulen and Stefana Fratila “I want to leave the Earth behind”

Journey Between Worlds, curated by Erika Tsuchiya (Innovative Media Studios, VCUarts Qatar), is an immersive film screening event that transports audiences into a breathtaking cinematic experience, blending cutting-edge technology with visionary storytelling. The event showcases a curated selection of films by global artists, from virtual reality journeys to multi-sensory narratives, and invites viewers to explore a unique fusion of art and innovation that redefines the way we experience cinema.

Doors open at 5:30 PM. Show starts at 6 PM.

Please register to attend the screening.

Artist Bios

• Nada Abdo, Erzum Naqvi, Ayza Sheikh: VCUarts Qatar student produced film, “Queen of the Mountains – ملكة الجبال” based on a poem by Qatari poet, Souad Al-Kuwari. The film highlights the beauty of the Qatari landscape, the desert and the sea, as well as the diversity of the voices that make up the region.
• Sebastien Labrunie: French multidisciplinary visual artist specializing in crafting immersive installation art, 360 fulldome films, music videos, experimental VR experiences, and live A/V performances. «Brèche» is a dive through matter, light and memories. An organic unfolding of visual noises. Photogrammetric real life scans of different scales merge into abstract landscapes as we dive deeper into worlds where macro and micro become indistinguishable and where past moments interconnect.
• Sergey Prokofyev: Ukrainian architect and filmmaker currently based in Berlin. His work bridges urban design and immersive cinema, striving to create collective experiences that inspire, engage, and challenge conventional perceptions. “Labyrinth” represents an attempt to combine the architectural fantasy of a labyrinth and the visual experience of walking through time.
• Josh Rodenberg & Erika Tsuchiya, Innovative Media Studios, VCUarts Qatar: “Mirroring the Sky” explores the meditative aspects of light reflection and refraction as discovered in the natural terrains of Qatar. Building a narrative through sound design, creating a mixture of ambient frequencies and field recordings with rhythmic experimentation.
• Sumito Sakakibara: Japanese artist from Hokkaido, currently based in Nagano Prefecture. “Solitarium”– sanctuary or a sanitarium? A cathedral canopy or a cave painting? Maybe a womb, perhaps a forest in the eye. One’s inner landscape and vision projected in a skull.
• Diana VanderMeulen & Stefana Fratila: “I want to leave this Earth behind“ is a multisensory project by Canadian artists Stefana Fratila and Diana Lynn VanderMeulen which centers on outer space exploration, speculative-fictive realities, and Crip futurity. Engaging audiences in an immersive exercise of imagining interplanetary and sci-fantastical atmospheres– conditions that are inherently unlivable, unbreathable, converting all human body-minds into disabled-bodied-ness.
• Olga Wroniewicz: The final echoes of a dying star – light collapsing, time stretching, space unraveling. “The Last Words of a Quasar” is a journey through the birth and death of celestial giants, where sound and vision fuse into an expanding cosmos. Rhythms of breath and heartbeat resonate like cosmic waves, shaping a luminous, ephemeral universe before it fades into the void. Produced at the PJAIT Warsaw, based on a poem by Iva Damjanovski. Students-creators: Ruslana Fedenko, Justyna Ośka, Zuzanna Płachta