A cross-cultural VR initiative created by Less Media Group in partnership with the Institut français.
Over the past four years, the Digital Autumn festival has introduced more than 12,000 visitors to immersive art in cities across Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan. This year, VR screenings return to Moscow and St. Petersburg for the fifth time and will also take place in Perm and Novosibirsk.
A painted line separates light from shadow, a figure from its surroundings, one world from another.
It also opens a passage into an artist’s imagination. What happens when we cross that line — when we step inside an image and encounter the reality its creator has imagined?
It also opens a passage into an artist’s imagination. What happens when we cross that line — when we step inside an image and encounter the reality its creator has imagined?
© Jérémy Griffaud
© Lucid Realites
Digital Autumn 2026 explores this possibility through virtual and augmented reality.
Bringing together encounters with historical artworks and contemporary immersive creations, the festival invites audiences to move between different artistic realities: worlds shaped by colour, architecture, memory, sound, and the living environment.
Bringing together encounters with historical artworks and contemporary immersive creations, the festival invites audiences to move between different artistic realities: worlds shaped by colour, architecture, memory, sound, and the living environment.
From Monet’s water lilies and the enigmatic presence of the Mona Lisa to the shifting perceptions of Outrenoir and the intricate universe of Ito Meikyū, each experience offers a distinct way of seeing—and of being present.
© Boris Labbé
Moscow
LOCATION
Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines
ADDRESS
12 Rozhdestvenka Street
DATES
30.10—03.11.26
TICKETS
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Saint Petersburg
LOCATION
Shklliarski.Experience
ADDRESS
14 Liteyny Prospekt
DATES
31.10—01.11.26 / 07.11—08.11.26
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ARCHI VR : La villa Savoye
AUTHOR
Gordon
production
format
Interactive VR
duration
10 minutes
description
Interspersed with memories of Madame Savoye, the correspondence she exchanged with her architect and the writings of one of the greatest architectural theorists of the 20th century, this virtual reality experience takes us back into the history of the creation of Villa Savoye, one of the most famous buildings by the architect who would later be known as Le Corbusier.
Claude Monet — L’obsession des Nymphéas
author
Nicolas Thépot
production
format
VR 360°
duration
8 minutes
AWARDS
VivePort Developer Award 2019
description
Through a 360° video and an interactive experience in virtual reality Claude Monet — The Water Lily obsession takes you to the locations where this work was produced, and immerses you in the process of painting this unique piece.
Flow
author
Adriaan Lokman
production
format
360° 3D
duration
15 minutes
AWARDS
Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival 2023
description
Flow invites to float with the wind on what seems to be a day like any other, with its turbulence: a night in the life of a woman painted by a flow of air currents.
Insider-Outsider
author
Philippe Cohen Solal
production
format
Interactive VR
duration
12 minutes
description
Insider-Outsider is a musical and interactive experience created by composer and producer Philippe Cohen Solal (Gotan Project) and inspired by the work of American painter and writer Henry Darger, a major figure of the Outsider Art movement. This immersive experience is part of the transmedia project Outsider, which combines music and dreamlike imagery to immerse us in the hallucinatory universe of the artist. It portrays the attack against the Vivian Girls, the seven young heroines of Darger’s epic novel, as well as their victory over their assailants.
Ito Meikyu
author
Boris Labbé
production
format
Interactive VR
duration
20 minutes
awards
81st Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive — winner of the Grand Prize, 2024
description
Interior and exterior, transparency and opacity, exhibitionism and voyeurism, feminine and masculine; all these notions oppose or unite in the infinite cycle of a labyrinth with no exit. Life here is like a loom whose living weft is woven from a myriad of branching threads and paths.
Monsieur Vincent
authorS
Agnès Molia and Gordon
production
format
Interactive VR
duration
20 minutes
description
On July 29th, 1890, in Auvers-sur-Oise, the painter Vincent van Gogh died by suicide. Marguerite, the daughter of his physician, Dr. Gachet, was one of his last models. The experience starts in the home of Dr. Gachet where Marguerite reminisces about the artist.
Outrenoir
Outrenoir
author
Gordon
production
format
Interactive VR
duration
10 minutes
description
In tribute to Pierre Soulages, Outrenoir is a virtual reality experience that immerses viewers in the painter’s universe.
The project premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2026.
The project premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2026.
Sous le ciel
author
Jérémy Griffaud
format
VR 360°
duration
5 minutes
description
Under the Sky is a 5-minute immersive animated film that surrounds the viewer with a dreamlike flow of hybrid landscapes and fantastical creatures. Composed of nearly 300 watercolors created during an artistic residency in Borneo, the work is inspired by local tribal cultures and their deep, spiritual connection with the natural world. Echoing and transforming Chagall’s humanist message, the film emphasizes our fragile relationship with plants, animals and insects. Under the Sky is a poetic meditation on interconnection, loss and the cycles of life.
En tête à tête avec la Joconde
author
Musée du Louvre
production
format
VR 360°
duration
8 minutes
description
Mona Lisa: Beyond the Glass is the first virtual reality (VR) experience presented by Musée du Louvre. The virtual reality experience combines moving image, sound and interactive design to create a deeply engaging way to immerse visitors in the world of da Vinci’s as well as bringing to life decades of conservation research and data, including infrared scans. Transporting the viewer through time, the experience unveils insights into how the artwork was originally created, how it might have looked in the past, and how it has changed over 500 years.
Éternelle Notre-Dame
author
Excurio
production
format
VR 360°
duration
5 minutes *
description
Eternal Notre-Dame is a technological challenge that allows the public to immerse themselves in the history of the Notre-Dame Cathedral of Paris and its treasures, from its construction in the Middle Ages to the current restoration project. A journey through time and space, which allows everyone to discover an emblematic monument in all its aspects, living a real experience in virtual reality where all visitors become real actors of the monument’s rebirth.
* As part of the "Digital Autumn" exhibition, a small segment of the project (5 minutes long) is being presented to the audience.
* As part of the "Digital Autumn" exhibition, a small segment of the project (5 minutes long) is being presented to the audience.
Un bar aux Folies Bergère
authorS
Gabrielle Lissot and Marianne Le Morvan
production
format
VR 360°
duration
6 minutes
description
A Bar at the Folies-Bergère VR takes us into the head, the eyes and thoughts of four characters: the painter, his model Suzon, the client observing her and a visitor at the Courtauld Gallery where the masterwork is currently exposed.
Revivre Notre-Dame
author
Chloé Rochereuil
production
format
VR 360°
duration
16 minutes
description
A dive into the stunning sceneries of the Notre Dame cathedral before and after the tragic fire.
On April 15, 2019, the Notre-Dame cathedral caught fire. Today, Notre-Dame is still standing. Experience a unique and unprecedented immersion in the cathedral before and after the fire, narrated by the leaders who look after the iconic monument.
On April 15, 2019, the Notre-Dame cathedral caught fire. Today, Notre-Dame is still standing. Experience a unique and unprecedented immersion in the cathedral before and after the fire, narrated by the leaders who look after the iconic monument.