Wander through a labyrinthine inner and outer world where everything feels connected.

Winner of the Venice Grand Immersive Prize at the Venice Film Festival, Ito Meikyū is a virtual reality experience inspired by Japanese art history and literature (fukinuki yatai - a traditional Japanese painting technique, The Tale of Genji, The Pillow Book). It invites you to immerse yourself in a large animated fresco, recreating a labyrinthine inner and outer world composed of fractal architectures, inhabited by plants, objects, animals, men, women, pattersn and calligraphy. Life here is like a loom whose living weft is woven from a myriad of branching threads and paths. It's a "thread metaphor", connecting life and love and representing relationships as threads linking individuals. The project uses the “thread metaphor” to combine text, textile, and existence, materialising on screen through weaving principles. This metaphor connects life and love, representing relationships as threads linking individuals.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2025

Showing in this program

Ito Meikyu

• Boris Labbé
• France / Luxembourg, 2024
• 15 min.

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.