DOK Exchange XR Prototyping Zone

DOK Exchange XR

DOK Exchange XR Prototyping Zone

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About

The aim of the Prototyping Zone is to bridge creators with the XR community of experts, future audiences, and distributors. It enables the testing of interactive elements and narrative solutions, as well as onboarding and offboarding experiences in spatial conditions, refining XR projects before their finalisation. This process ultimately contributes to reducing production and distribution costs in later stages of development. The presentation of works during this phase offers a deeper understanding of user experience design, fostering productive discussions and gathering extensive feedback.

Language
English

Access
Guests with a Festival and Industry Accreditation and DOK Exchange XR Conference Pass are welcome. 
The slot reservation system will be opened soon.

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Propsteikirche St. Trinitatis
Nonnenmühlgasse 2, 04107 Leipzig
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Nonnenmühlgasse 2, 04107 Leipzig
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Projects in the XR Prototyping Zone 2026

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Projects
Filmstill Becoming Lucien

Becoming Lucien

Devenir Lucien
Lucien Pin
XR Prototyping Zone
XR Documentary, Animation
France
25–30 min
French,
English,
German,
Portuguese (Brazil)
Themes
LGBTQIA+, Trans, Identity, Coming-of-age
Website
morituri.fr
Project Stage
Prototype
Estimated Release
2027

Logline

Becoming Lucien is a documentary self-portrait in virtual reality: Lucien Pin, a 28-year-old trans man, meets the 7-year-old child he once was to tell him, across five dreamlike chapters, the story of his transition, through doubt, hardship, and rediscovered joy.

Credits

Director
Lucien Pin
France
Producer
Thibault Elie
MORITURI
France
Artistic Design
Alex Haugmard
Distributor
Unframed Collection
Sound Design
Côme Jalibert
Cosmotone
Cinematographer
Alex Haugmard

Confirmed Partners

Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée
Eurimages
Ville de Paris
Fondation Villa Pierron

Project Representatives

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Lucien Pin
he/him, they/them
Director
Lucien Pin is a 28-year-old non-binary transmasculine transdisciplinary artist, a graduate of La Fémis (2022). His practice explores identity, bodily performance, and political struggle. Author of BOÏ and TERF/ANTITERF, he also researches the history of transgender self-portraiture at Sorbonne Nouvelle University.
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Thibault Elie
he/him
Producer
A film-history graduate and journalist, Thibault Elie founded the podcast Négatif before co-founding Morituri Films in 2021. He develops intimate, engaged stories across fiction, experimental and VR, from first films to the work of established auteurs.

Contact

Thibault Elie
he/him
MORITURI
France
thibault@morituri.fr

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Projects
Filmstill Bub

Bub

Case Jernigan, Todd Anderson
XR Prototyping Zone
Narrative Adventure Game, Stop-motion Console Game
USA
12–20 min
English
Themes
Illness, Healing, Memory, Artmaking, Mortality, New York City, Urban Life
Project Stage
Development
Estimated Release
2027

Logline

A narrative adventure game about turning your memories into art while you still can. Made with slashes of ink and paint and thousands of cut paper pieces, Bub is a deeply personal, living, breathing game world.

Credits

Director
Case Jernigan
Paperfrog
Director
Todd Anderson
Paperfrog
USA

Project Representatives

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Case Jernigan
he/him
Director
Case Jernigan makes films and games about vulnerability and healing. He’s exhibited at Slamdance, HotDocs, and Animate Projects UK where he won the 2025 Audience Award. He’s making ‘Bub’, a stop-motion narrative adventure, which debuted at Day of the Devs 2026 and has been featured in The Guardian, Polygon and Game Informer.
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Todd Anderson
he/him
Director
Todd Anderson is a digital poet and game maker based in New York City. He has been making experimental software art for over 10 years and curates the influential monthly talk series, WordHack. Todd serves as Co-Director of the School for Poetic Computation, an alternative art+tech school. He is currently making Bub, a stop-motion narrative game.

Contact

Case Jernigan
he/him
Paperfrog
wcjern@gmail.com
https://www.paperfrog.games

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Projects
Filmstill Mourning Glory

Mourning Glory

Au Matt
XR Prototyping Zone
Immersive Documentary, Installation, Intimate Performance, Butoh
Poland,
Switzerland
4 min
English
Themes
Queer Afterlife, Death, Mortality, Ritual, Transcendence, Intimacy, Grief
Project Stage
Development
Estimated Release
2027

Logline

Intimate dome installation inviting 2 viewers at a time to witness Chad's preparation for the Eternal, crossing the treshhold through a butoh movement. Immersive meditation on queer death.

Credits

Director
Au Matt
Producer
Pepe Le Puke
Switzerland

Confirmed Partners

Zurich Film Fund, QUAFF

Project Representatives

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Au Matt
he/him
Director
Au Matt’s work subverts passive viewership into live and interactive experiences . After having worked as Creative and Art Director, they founded GAME, a decentralized multi-disciplinary creative bureau that has developed projects throughout Asia.
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Pepe Le Puke
he/him
Producer
Pepe Le Puke is a filmmaker, producer, and performer whose practice centers on themes of identity, diversity, and freedom. His debut film Fuck It! serves as a personal queer manifesto, reflecting his uncompromising approach to storytelling. TPepe is also active in film curation, working with the Porny Days Festival in Zurich.

Contact

Au Matt
he/him
mathius.scibor@gmail.com

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Projects
Filmstill Three Legged Chair

Three Legged Chair

Thanussayan Karunakaran
XR Prototyping Zone
Interactive Documentary, Experimental Installation, Neurointeractive / Biofeedback 
Germany,
Sri Lanka
4–20 min
English,
Tamil (Sri Lanka)
Themes

Complicity, Justice, Collective Memory, Post-conflict Society, Group Decision-making, Consensus-building

Project Stage
Prototype
Estimated Release
2026

Logline

Set in post-war Sri Lanka, "Three Legged Chair" is an EEG-driven interactive cinema installation. Viewers wear headbands that read brain activity in real time. The system aggregates the audience into one collective emotional state, which drives the branching and selects the next scene. The audience decides without deciding.

Credits

Director
Thanussayan Karunakaran
Germany
Production Company
IFS Internationale Filmschule Köln

Confirmed Partners

ifs Internationale Filmschule Köln — MA thesis production, equipment and post-production support.

Project Representatives

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Thanussayan Karunakaran
he/him
Director
Thanussayan Karunakaran is an artistic researcher and designer working across narrative, social practice, and emerging technologies. He builds live, participatory installations that make political tensions tangible in shared spaces.

Contact

Thanussayan Karunakaran
he/him
Germany
thanussayan@gmail.com
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