Dead City

"Dead City ”i s a VR-based, interactive story that combines the features of film narration, 3D elements and opera. Its plot and libretto allude to the work of the same title by Erich Wolfgang Korngold from 1920. In the work from a century ago, the action took place in Bruges, and the contemporary “Dead City” is Warsaw, which is plagued by a pandemic. Empty, depressing and nostalgic. The aesthetics refer to the style of dark vaporwafe, gifs, collages and retro minimalism. Paweł, the main character, tries to say goodbye to his recently deceased wife. His unreal visions mix with the places where he spent time with his beloved So we see the couple's house, their favorite Iluzjon cinema, a date at the Palace of Culture, a palm tree that used to be a symbol of their first holidays, the Powiśle train station, where they met, the Intercontinental hotel, Finally, we visit the place of their farewell, the dark depths of the Vistula River by the Świętokrzyski Bridge, in which Paweł melts and turns into a morphing, black space. This is accompanied by a voice saying goodbye to him, saying: "Everything is a memory, nothing dies, because nothing is there, be calm, be calm, nothing dies, because nothing is and everything is."