The exhibition features a wide range of VR experiences from Israel and around the world
10/11/2025 | 18:00 | Gazit Hall
Eddie and I | Maya Sheke
Israel, Germany, France | 2025 | 25 Min. | English, Sign Language
How does one overcome fear of the unknown? Deaf 8-year-old Ron is scared of his first camping trip. His mother tries to calm him down and tells him about Eddie the Camper, a friendly monster who is the best friend one can have on a nature adventure. Despite her efforts, Ron’s fear of the trip persists.
After falling into a deep sleep, however, Ron wakes up in a surreal forest where he meets YOU, the user, embodied as Eddie the Camper - and the two of you embark on an adventure. Yet there’s an obstacle: Ron can’t hear you and you don’t speak sign language.
As you proceed through the approximately 25-minute interactive experience, you will work with Ron to complete tasks, navigate the forest, and learn basic sign language along the way.
Will the two of you be able to bridge your differences, overcome communication barriers - and successfully complete the adventure?
Bystanding: The Feingold Syndrome | Nim Shapira, Roi Le
Israel, Canada, Germany | 2021 | 13 Min. | Hebrew
In 2009, Jasmine Feingold, Israeli rowing champion, lost consciousness and capsized with her scull boat in Tel Aviv’s Ha’Yarkon River. While she stayed submerged underwater for 5 minutes, none of the dozens of bystanders nearby jumped into the water to help her. Using novel techniques of volumetric capture, photogrammetry, animations, and 360º videos, ‘Bystanding’ allows participants to experience bystanders’ deepest confessions from that day.
Spots of Light | Adam Weingrod
Israel, Canada | 2023 | 14 min. | English
Spots of Light is an immersive VR documentary that takes viewers into the extraordinary journey of Dan Layani, who as a young soldier tragically lost his sight in combat in 1982. After 25 years of living in darkness, a miraculous opportunity presented itself for Dan to undergo an experimental surgery to bring back his sight. With his vision restored, Dan was able to behold his beloved wife and his four children, for the very first time. However, the story takes an unexpected turn.Guided by Dan’s heartfelt narration, Spots of Light takes the user on an introspective journey through pivotal moments in his life. These moments are depicted through family archives transformed into ethereal particle environments that envelop the user, creating a mesmerizing and meditative experience into Dan’s view of his world
Breathe | Michaël Kolchesky Bisso
France, Israel, Germany | 2024 | 17 Min. | English, French
“Breathe” is a powerful immersive VR documentary that follows the emotional journey of a couple facing the premature birth of their twin sons, Nathanael and Maxim, born at just 27 weeks. Directed by Michaël Kolchesky, a pioneer in 360° cinematography, the film intimately captures the three and a half months the babies spent in intensive care at a Paris hospital. Blending real 360° footage and CGI, the story offers a rare, first-person perspective on life inside the neonatal unit. “Breathe” reveals the fragile yet resilient world of preemies and their families, sharing moments of fear, hope, and connection in one of life’s most vulnerable chapters
Murder in the Estate | Adam Horowitz
Israel | 2024 | 20 Min. | Hebrew
A virtual visit to the Achuzat Bayit neighborhood of the 1920s, featuring a reconstruction of its historic buildings at the western end of Herzl Street and Rothschild Boulevard. Against the backdrop of Dizengoff’s house, the first City Hall, and the Herzliya Gymnasium, a murder investigation unfolds- drawing the viewer into contact with various, more or less suspicious, characters in the first Hebrew city.Based on a true story.
Night to Night | Chani Koplowitz & Miriam Cohen
Israel | 2023 | 30 Min. | Hebrew
Shuli Rand as a solo storyteller draws the audience into the ancient, enchanting Jerusalem, weaving through its alleyways the story of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef- from his humble childhood to his esteemed role as Chief Rabbi of Israel. Throughout the journey, the Rabbi’s boundless compassion and deep love for the people of Israel shine through.
On the Morning You Wake | Mike Brett, Steve Jamison, Arnaud Colinart and Pierre Zandrowicz
2022 | English, French
On January 13th 2018, 1.4m people across Hawai’i received an SMS from the state’s Emergency Management Agency:
BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
In the minutes that followed, they were forced to confront existential questions that had been unthinkable just moments before: where could they go for shelter? What would remain of their communities if they survived a nuclear blast? How could they explain to their children why we live in a world where such unimaginable destruction was possible? And how could their own Government continue to pursue nuclear policies that threaten the entire global population every day?
By the time FEMA managed to retract the incorrect warning message, it was too late to pretend that normality would resume. Their collective experience had laid bare the growing threat that nuclear weapons pose to the world. In the words of Kauai resident Cynthia Lazaroff, ‘Nothing happened, but everything changed’.
Notes on Blindness | Peter Middleton & James Spinney
France | 2019 | English, French, German
This multi-award-winning narrative VR experience is now available on Oculus Quest. ARTE gives you the opportunity to discover and rediscover Notes On Blindness, an emotional journey into a world beyond sight.
Emperor | Marion Burger & Ilan J. Cohen
France | 2024 | 40 Min. | English, French, German
EMPEROR is a 40-minute interactive, narrative experience that places you inside the brain of a man suffering from aphasia.
You not only share the experience of a father who has lost his ability to speak, but also hear the story of his daughter, who is trying to communicate with him. You join her quest to unravel the past he can no longer talk about, and to discover how his relationship to words connects to his memories.
Step by step, clue after clue, you dive alongside her into the inner world of this man who’s been transported to the mysterious territory of Aphasia, shown as a surrealist black-and-white landscape.
With one-of-a-kind art direction, EMPEROR is an intimate, touching story that will leave a lasting impression on your mind.
