Virtual reality (VR) Filging in the south (SXSW) Austin films, the audience lives in the story of Carolyn Mercer, the UK transsexual women.
At the time of being (March 9, 9-March), Texas-Born, Los Angeles-based directors and digital storytelling KostopoulosIt is a second VR project that has created the second VR project to help you understand the audience experience. “Right now, according to Trans and Queer communities attack, it is very important to arrive during the corridor and invite people to see your perspective,” Kostopoulos said ” Art diary.
In addition to VR elements, the audience brings audiors with sleeves, sleeves and gloves to feel the heart beat and breathing, as he tells his story, after decades, after receiving electrical treatment. The process was trapped in a chair and the images of women who were impressed in front of his decades, affected, when he thought about himself, he hides his true identity in his 70s.
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Those involved at work will not feel the same painless pain, but it will have full vibration of full-body, as it is “quite intense,” Kostopoulos says. In addition to being a simulating fear and pain, the work of the work can also be “challenged sensation,” the director also added the feeling of liberation, peace and recovery when he hugged life as a woman.
“Our piece is the message that ends on the last title screen is that conversion therapy is not therapy,” Kostopoulos says. “You can’t change someone’s sexuality, you can’t change someone’s gender identity. You can’t have someone to be CIS, if you can’t binary someone.” It’s not something that needs to be healed. “
Mercer’s Story is particularly timely to move the Administration of President Donald Trump as well as to eliminate the recognition of transsexual people as a public policy, jeopardizing existing risk communities. According to a national mental health survey In 2024, LGBTQ + young people said 90% said their well-being negatively affected the latest political discourses, and 46% of non-transsexuals and non-suicide suicide. Mercer has recently began talking about his experiences Publicly, keeping his true personality secret family and friends in most of his life. “That’s why it’s important to share this story for us, because if he didn’t go ahead, he has never said such a thing,” Kostopoulos says.
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VR formats also allow stories like Mercer to share more visually. Kostopoulos found him with the first project, My bodyusers to access the body of another genre. He won the Special Jury Prize in SXSW in 2023 and showed Venice in the same year.
“The immersive art tool can be really powerful,” says Kostopoulos compared to the media like film or audio, which maintain a third-person view, especially with sensitive subjects such as gender identity. “It’s very easy to stop a movie or press a podcast in a podcast or when you’re in a dusty experience,” they explain, “you’re really going to listen to her and listening to it.”
This was true My bodyKostopoulos has been shown to audiences around the world, the pronouns of children selected among their children were very well received, among the 80-year-old women who lived in their terms.
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“It’s interesting enough, the most emotional people were genuinely audiovisuals,” Kostopoulos says. “I think, despite the fact that these stories are accurate, they are very universal. My body It’s more than a genre dysphoria, having a body and just feel comfortable in your body. And this new piece is a story about conversion therapy, but it is more than anything, it is a story about authenticity and being yourself what the world means.
Like My bodyThe US 40 States has now been divided into LGBTQ + centers, hoping to share Kostopoulos At the time of being-This vr exhibition and production spaces based on the waters. With a larger audience. The goal is to show people who are making care of health and gender care, “they say, especially for half of the US states, to make conversion therapy in children,” it must be changed. “
- At the time of beingMarch 9-March 11, southwestern southwestern, Austin, Texas
