Empathy Creatures
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Nominees and Awards
- ★ 2026 SIMA Awards Immersive Impact Award
- ★ 2025 Venice Film Festival Venice Immersive Competition
- ★ 2025 Geneva International Film Festival
Synopsis
Empathy Creatures is an interactive fable about collective healing that invites participants to encounter a burned-out, AI-powered bird that senses their presence and responds to their actions.
Without dialogue or text prompts, the experience unfolds through intuition, interaction, and poetic rituals of care, encouraging participants to slow down and rediscover joy together. Through delicate and futuristic design, the work reimagines communication between humans and non-human beings, placing empathy at the heart of the experience.
Team
Director
Mélodie MOUSSET
Mélodie Mousset is a known innovator in mixed media art. Her critically acclaimed, Golden Halo-winning HanaHana_Multiplayer VR sandbox has seen some four million hand-created sculptures made by users worldwide. Her work has been exhibited at venues including RCA (London), MOCA (Los Angeles), Bund Museum (Shanghai), The Metropolitan Art Society (Beirut), Hek (Basel), Helmhaus (Zurich), and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.
