Ready to open up your soul and talk about your inner world through bodymapping, 3D drawing and movement?

Soul Paint exists at the nexus of immersive technology, creative storytelling and wellbeing to explore the richness of the embodied human experience. Narrated by actor and activist Rosario Dawson, audiences are taken on an embodied journey to explore and creatively express feelings of emotion and sensations in the body. Through the process of bodymapping, 3D drawing and movement, participants are invited to reveal their unique inner reality and then observe the creations of others. By embedding participatory arts with embodied gameplay, Soul Paint opens compelling new channels for people to express and share difficult conversations about their own mental health. It encourages new forms of insight, reflection and human connection, and addresses the whole body. Ready to open up your soul?

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2025

Showing in this program

Soul Paint

• Niki Smit / Sarah Ticho
• The Netherlands, 2024
• 20 min.

SOUL PAINT exists at the nexus of immersive technology, creative storytelling and wellbeing to explore the richness of the embodied human experience. Narrated by actor and activist, Rosario Dawson, audiences are taken on an embodied journey to explore and creatively express feelings of emotion and sensations in the body.
Through the process of bodymapping, 3D drawing and movement, they are invited to reveal their unique inner reality and then observe the creations of others. Using virtual reality technology in a genre-pushing way, this experience encourages new forms of embodied insight, allowing us to reflect on the diversity of human experience on an individual and global level.