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Float through mazes of graffiti and poetry in award-winning VR installation Chalkroom by Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang

The solid ground has disappeared. Thanks to the VR glasses, I float through a luminous portal and hear Laurie Anderson's voice in my ear: "You are now in the heart of the Chalkroom." Looking around, my gaze glides like a spotlight along a forest of graffiti and chalk sketches covering the black walls. Moving the controllers I was pressed into my hands at the start in different directions allows me to move in all directions. The beginning of a scavenger hunt through a maze ...

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

The solid ground has disappeared. Thanks to the VR glasses, I float through a luminous portal and hear Laurie Anderson's voice in my ear: "You are now in the heart of the Chalkroom." Looking around, my gaze glides like a spotlight along a forest of graffiti and chalk sketches covering the black walls. Moving the controllers I was pressed into my hands at the start in different directions allows me to move in all directions. The beginning of a scavenger hunt through a maze ...

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