How do we build and tell virtual worlds today? How do we merge computer-generated imagery with human bodies in order to build alternative environments that better represent us, our identities and artistic interests? ​​

In collaboration with the virtual production studio Appia, MA Media Design students addressed these questions through the production of mini-movies where they imagined alternative visions for the metaverse. From a feast made out of rotting fruits to fantastical stories on another planet to a place of burial for dead flowers, each produced movie offered new aesthetics for virtual worlds.

A selection of these movies was then selected and shown during the Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF).

Students

Pauline Baldinetti

Ilhana Bešić

Benjamin Boulesteix

Audrey Délisse

Dorota Grajewska

Arthur Groebli

Raghid Jomaa

Salomé Kahn

Hugo Langlade

Emma Parente

Melina Reymondin

Andreia Rodrigues

Théotime Serre

Clément Vogelsperger

Assistants

Nicolas Baldran

Cyrus Khalatbari

Professors

Sabrina Calvo

Marie Dommenget

Laurent Novac

Partner

Appia Studio

Head of department

Alexia Mathieu

Scenographer

Studio Valentin Dubois