Over the past three years, the Digital Autumn festival has introduced more than 10,000 viewers to the world of immersive art.

This year, VR screenings will take place for the fourth time across five cities in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Russia.

A cross-cultural VR initiative presented by Less Media Group in partnership with the French Institute.

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From the endless labyrinth of French artist Boris Labbé, inspired by Japanese art, to stepping into the world of Vincent van Gogh’s paintings; from a windy cityscape imagined by artist Adrian Lokman to the quiet majesty of Notre-Dame Cathedral — each project opens a new world to explore.

Immersive media allow us not just to watch a story, but to dive into it. It’s an experience where the viewer becomes part of the space, feels the atmosphere, and lives within the story.

Digital Autumn invites you to take this deep dive — to explore, to feel, and to discover new ways of seeing through the language of immersive art and technology.

LOCATIONS

NUKUS

06.11 – 09.11.2025

Государственный музей искусств имени И. В. Савицкого

ALMATY

to be announced

Almaty Creative
улица Маркова, 44

to be announced

Saint Petersburg

Фиджитал-галерея «Охра»
Культурный квартал «Брусницын»,
Кожевенная линия, 30

TASHKENT

to be announced

MOC Creative Hub
улица Буюк Турон, 77

MOSCOW

to be announced

SHYMKENT

to be announced

ALMATY

by Elly Oldman

FRESCO

starting from November 12th 2025

улица Маркова, 44
Almaty Creative

Saint Petersburg

French Immersive

November 14th, 20:30

Наб. Обводного канала, д. 74, лит. Ц
Планетарий 1

PROGRAMME

Ito Meikyū is a virtual reality experience that develops around references from the history of Japanese art and literature and unfolds like a grand sensory fresco.

Ito Meikyu

Ito Meikyu

Ito Meikyū is a virtual reality experience that develops around references from the history of Japanese art and literature (Fukinuki Yatai, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book) and unfolds like a grand sensory fresco with a strong emotional potential.

A heterogeneous collection of drawn, animated, and sound scenes is captured in digital material; they recreate, in a way, a subjective world (inner and outer world) in the form of a labyrinth composed of fractal architectures, inhabited by plants, objects, animals, men, women, patterns, and calligraphy. The ambulatory virtual space allows access to different scenes according to the randomness of our choices: a kind of game of hide-and-seek with the universe then unfolds, at the center of which we are the omniscient viewer-voyeur.

About:

81st Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive — winner of the Grand Prize, 2024

Awards:

Flow is a turbulent day, driven by air.

Flow
by Adriaan Lokman

Flow is a turbulent day, driven by air.

Flow VR invites you to surrender to the whims of the wind on a seemingly ordinary day, concealing within its turbulence a captivating night in the life of a woman, portrayed through the dance of air currents. The interplay of scents, warmth, respiration, and both natural and artificial gusts of wind, influenced by invisible forces, renders the imperceptible tangible. These atmospheric movements unveil a sequence of events in which we are encouraged to accompany the woman on her meanderings, plunging us into a realm crafted entirely from air. However, as the storm subsides and the woman awakens from what transpires to have been a dream, her world is no longer the same.

About:

80th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive — winner of Special Jury Prize, 2023

Awards:

Flow
by Adriaan Lokman

This VR experience takes the viewer on a journey through his palette of colours and famous works of the painter Vincent van Gogh.

Monsieur Vincent

Monsieur Vincent

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.

She takes the viewer on a journey through his palette of colours and famous works: in Provence, where he nearly lost himself in his quest for the “high yellow note”; the reds and greens of the cafés along the Rhône River; the vivid colours of the night sky; and in the fields of Northern France, where he explored the pure colours of exhilaration and passion.

About:

Impulse is a revolutionary mixed-reality experience that takes the user inside the workings of the brain and the different ways it processes information.

Impulse:
Playing with Reality

Impulse:
Playing with Reality

Impulse is a revolutionary mixed-reality experience that takes the user inside the workings of the brain and the different ways it processes information from its immediate environment.

Supported by four poignant, embodied personal stories that feed into the experience, Impulse places the user in the skin and consciousness of a patient with ADHD, enabling them to better apprehend the complexity of this mental condition.

About:

81st Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive — winner of the Immersive Achievement Prize, 2024

Awards:

Through mind-bending animation, explore the limits of reality and a true story of mental health and the power of gaming.

Goliath:
Playing with Reality

Goliath:
Playing with Reality

Through mind-bending animation, explore the limits of reality and a true story of mental health and the power of gaming.

Echo (narrated by Tilda Swinton) guides you through the many realities of Goliath, a man who spent years in isolating mental health institutions but finds connection in multiplayer games. Combining heart-felt dialogue, mesmerising visuals and symbolic interactions, weave through multiple worlds to uncover Goliath's poignant story.

About:

78th Venice International Film Festival — winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Immersive Work, 2021

Emmy Award, the Outstanding Interactive Media Innovation category — nominee for a News & Documentary, 2022

Awards:

Empereur is an interactive, narrative experience, inviting us to travel to the heart of a brain: that of a father who has become aphasic.

Empereur

Empereur

Empereur is born from a true story, that of Marion’s father, who has been suffering from aphasia for the past fifteen years. He mixes up words, and stumbles over every syllable. He understands everything, but can no longer make himself understood.

More than the medical aspect of his condition, she was interested in the poetry of some of the absurd situations which she had sometimes encountered. One day she found herself comparing aphasia to a distant country. She could see him lost in this faraway land, trying to find his way around and make himself understood. This idea helped her to imagine his distress, and a bridge to try to reach him. But to grasp what he was trying to say, she would have to dig into the man he had been.

About:

80th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive — winner of the Achievement Prize, 2023

Awards:

A strange love in a world without sun…
A fiction in virtual reality told by Colin Farrell.

Gloomy Eyes

Gloomy Eyes

A strange love in a world without sun...
A fiction in virtual reality told by Colin Farrell.

Gloomy Eyes is an animated VR-series in 6DoF (6 degrees of freedom) & 3D real-time.

When the sun got tired of humans it decided to hide and never rise again. The darkness awoke the dead from their graves. After the sun retreated and darkness engulfed the world, an oppressive leader has made being a zombie against the law, their very existence is illegal. They are forced to hide in the forest, away from dangerous zombie hunters. At night when the hunters retreat into their homes, the cold sunless world becomes calm and quiet. A zombie kid called Gloomy wanders alone, out of sight... This zombie is different. Truth is, he doesn’t feel too comfortable around others of his kind. Gloomy is not like other zombies. He has something inside him that we can’t see or understand. But Nature knows he’s special.

About:

Annecy International Animated Film Festival — winner in the Best VR Film category

2019 SXSW Film Festival, Virtual Cinema — winner of the Jury Award for Best Narrative, 2019

Awards:

Black Madrid is an interactive, narrative VR sci-fi experience.

Madrid Noir

Madrid Noir

Black Madrid is an interactive, narrative VR sci-fi experience.

Madrid, 1950. When 29-year-old Lola arrives in Madrid to move her clear out her dead uncle's apartment, she has no idea what she is about to discover. It's been more than 20 years since she last heard from that irascible uncle, Manolo, with whom she had spent a summer as a child. She remembers his adorable dog Paquita but also his strange behavior. She was just a little girl who wanted to have fun and discover the big city. But things unfolded differently than expected and she saw things that a child should not have seen.

About:

Emmy Award, Children’s & Family —
winner of the Outstanding Interactive Media, 2022

Awards:

Notes on Blindness is an immersive virtual reality project based on John Hull’s sensory and psychological experience of blindness.

Notes on Blindness

Notes on Blindness

Notes on Blindness is an immersive virtual reality project based on John Hull’s sensory and psychological experience of blindness.

In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, writer and theologian John Hull became totally blind.

To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began documenting his experiences on audio cassette. Over three years he recorded in excess of sixteen hours of material – a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating his interior world of blindness.

These original diary recordings form the basis of this project, a six-part interactive documentary using new forms of storytelling, gameplay mechanics and virtual reality to explore his cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.

Each scene will address a memory, a moment and a specific location from John’s audio diary, using binaural audio and real time 3D animations to create a fully immersive experience.

About:

Legacy Peabody Award, Digital & Immersive Storytelling — winner of the Best VR experience of the decade, 2022

Awards:

Hawaiians suddenly confronted a real and urgent nuclear threat — one that we all currently face, but rarely acknowledge.

On the morning
you wake

(to the End of the World)

Hawaiians suddenly confronted a real and urgent nuclear threat — one that we all currently face, but rarely acknowledge.

On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) is a virtual reality documentary that immerses the audience in the first-hand experience of citizens in Hawai’i to make clear the fundamental injustice of a world where nuclear weapons exist.

About:

SXSW Film Festival, XR Experience Competition — winner of the Jury Award for Best VR film, 2022

Awards:

On the morning
you wake

(to the End of the World)

A dive into the stunning sceneries of the Notre Dame cathedral before and after the tragic fire.

Revivre Notre Dame

Revivre Notre Dame

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.

About:

A VR journey into the world of cinema.

Kinoscope

Kinoscope

A VR journey into the world of cinema.

Kinoscope is a VR experience immersing the spectator into a lively and colorful universe to discover the history of cinema lead by the voice of the Hollywood legend Dean Tavoularis, motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink’s Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.

About:

Ito Meikyu

Ito Meikyū is a virtual reality experience that develops around references from the history of Japanese art and literature (Fukinuki Yatai, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book) and unfolds like a grand sensory fresco with a strong emotional potential.

A heterogeneous collection of drawn, animated, and sound scenes is captured in digital material; they recreate, in a way, a subjective world (inner and outer world) in the form of a labyrinth composed of fractal architectures, inhabited by plants, objects, animals, men, women, patterns, and calligraphy. The ambulatory virtual space allows access to different scenes according to the randomness of our choices: a kind of game of hide-and-seek with the universe then unfolds, at the center of which we are the omniscient viewer-voyeur.

About:

81st Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive — winner of the Grand Prize, 2024

Awards:

Flow
by Adriaan Lokman

Flow is a turbulent day, driven by air.

Flow VR invites you to surrender to the whims of the wind on a seemingly ordinary day, concealing within its turbulence a captivating night in the life of a woman, portrayed through the dance of air currents. The interplay of scents, warmth, respiration, and both natural and artificial gusts of wind, influenced by invisible forces, renders the imperceptible tangible. These atmospheric movements unveil a sequence of events in which we are encouraged to accompany the woman on her meanderings, plunging us into a realm crafted entirely from air. However, as the storm subsides and the woman awakens from what transpires to have been a dream, her world is no longer the same.

About:

80th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive — winner of Special Jury Prize, 2023

Awards:

Monsieur Vincent

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.

She takes the viewer on a journey through his palette of colours and famous works: in Provence, where he nearly lost himself in his quest for the “high yellow note”; the reds and greens of the cafés along the Rhône River; the vivid colours of the night sky; and in the fields of Northern France, where he explored the pure colours of exhilaration and passion.

About:

Impulse:
Playing with Reality

Impulse is a revolutionary mixed-reality experience that takes the user inside the workings of the brain and the different ways it processes information from its immediate environment.

Supported by four poignant, embodied personal stories that feed into the experience, Impulse places the user in the skin and consciousness of a patient with ADHD, enabling them to better apprehend the complexity of this mental condition.

About:

81st Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive — winner of the Immersive Achievement Prize, 2024

Awards:

Goliath:
Playing with Reality

Through mind-bending animation, explore the limits of reality and a true story of mental health and the power of gaming.

Echo (narrated by Tilda Swinton) guides you through the many realities of Goliath, a man who spent years in isolating mental health institutions but finds connection in multiplayer games. Combining heart-felt dialogue, mesmerising visuals and symbolic interactions, weave through multiple worlds to uncover Goliath's poignant story.

About:

78th Venice International Film Festival — winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best VR Immersive Work, 2021

Emmy Award, the Outstanding Interactive Media Innovation category — nominee for a News & Documentary, 2022

Awards:

Empereur

Empereur is born from a true story, that of Marion’s father, who has been suffering from aphasia for the past fifteen years. He mixes up words, and stumbles over every syllable. He understands everything, but can no longer make himself understood.

More than the medical aspect of his condition, she was interested in the poetry of some of the absurd situations which she had sometimes encountered. One day she found herself comparing aphasia to a distant country. She could see him lost in this faraway land, trying to find his way around and make himself understood. This idea helped her to imagine his distress, and a bridge to try to reach him. But to grasp what he was trying to say, she would have to dig into the man he had been.

About:

80th Venice International Film Festival, Venice Immersive — winner of the Achievement Prize, 2023

Awards:

Gloomy Eyes

A strange love in a world without sun...
A fiction in virtual reality told by Colin Farrell.

Gloomy Eyes is an animated VR-series in 6DoF
(6 degrees of freedom) & 3D real-time.

When the sun got tired of humans it decided to hide and never rise again. The darkness awoke the dead from their graves. After the sun retreated and darkness engulfed the world, an oppressive leader has made being a zombie against the law, their very existence is illegal. They are forced to hide in the forest, away from dangerous zombie hunters. At night when the hunters retreat into their homes, the cold sunless world becomes calm and quiet. A zombie kid called Gloomy wanders alone, out of sight... This zombie is different. Truth is, he doesn’t feel too comfortable around others of his kind. Gloomy is not like other zombies. He has something inside him that we can’t see or understand. But Nature knows he’s special.

About:

Annecy International Animated Film Festival —
winner in the Best VR Film category

2019 SXSW Film Festival, Virtual Cinema —
winner of the Jury Award for Best Narrative, 2019

Awards:

Madrid Noir

Black Madrid is an interactive, narrative VR sci-fi experience.

Madrid, 1950. When 29-year-old Lola arrives in Madrid to move her clear out her dead uncle's apartment, she has no idea what she is about to discover. It's been more than 20 years since she last heard from that irascible uncle, Manolo, with whom she had spent a summer as a child. She remembers his adorable dog Paquita but also his strange behavior. She was just a little girl who wanted to have fun and discover the big city. But things unfolded differently than expected and she saw things that a child should not have seen.

About:

Emmy Award, Children’s & Family —
winner of the Outstanding Interactive Media, 2022

Awards:

Notes on Blindness

Notes on Blindness is an immersive virtual reality project based on John Hull’s sensory and psychological experience of blindness.

In 1983, after decades of steady deterioration, writer and theologian John Hull became totally blind.

To help him make sense of the upheaval in his life, he began documenting his experiences on audio cassette. Over three years he recorded in excess of sixteen hours of material – a unique testimony of loss, rebirth and renewal, excavating his interior world of blindness.

These original diary recordings form the basis of this project, a six-part interactive documentary using new forms of storytelling, gameplay mechanics and virtual reality to explore his cognitive and emotional experience of blindness.

Each scene will address a memory, a moment and a specific location from John’s audio diary, using binaural audio and real time 3D animations to create a fully immersive experience.

About:

Legacy Peabody Award, Digital & Immersive Storytelling — winner of the Best VR experience of the decade, 2022

Awards:

On the morning
you wake

Hawaiians suddenly confronted a real and urgent nuclear threat — one that we all currently face, but rarely acknowledge.

On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) is a virtual reality documentary that immerses the audience in the first-hand experience of citizens in Hawai’i to make clear the fundamental injustice of a world where nuclear weapons exist.

About:

SXSW Film Festival, XR Experience Competition —
winner of the Jury Award for Best VR film, 2022

Awards:

(to the End of the World)

Revivre Notre Dame

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.

About:

Kinoscope

A VR journey into the world of cinema.

Kinoscope is a VR experience immersing the spectator into a lively and colorful universe to discover the history of cinema lead by the voice of the Hollywood legend Dean Tavoularis, motion picture production designer whose work appeared in numerous box office hits such as The Godfather films, Apocalypse Now, The Brink’s Job, One from the Heart and Bonnie and Clyde.

About: