Walking into Dream- 2025

The practice Walking into Dream is a hybrid cinematic and immersive experience that integrates CVR narrative, projections (Projection 1, 2) and a physical memory display platform. Multi-device storytelling constructs a fragmented but cohesive narrative exploring personal memory, cultural memory, and trauma grief processing. 

The work tries to response to a core challenge: traumatic memories often resist linear narration and cannot be fully captured through cognitive or explanatory representation. Inspired by Laura U. Marks’ expansion of Deleuze’s concept of time-image, this practice uses fragmentation, non-linearity, and sensory disruption as valid modes of storytelling. Marks argues that time-images—with their disjunctive, affective logic—are particularly suited to expressing traumatic and cultural memories, which are themselves fragmented and layered. She also emphasizes that how we bring our own personal and cultural organization of the senses to cinema, and cinema brings a particular organization of the senses to us, the filmmaker’s own sensorium refracted through the cinematic apparatus (Marks, 2000). In this context, I used my childhood archival materials, stop-motion animation, and nested split video techniques to engage with subjectivity and evoke the past in non-linear and nested way . These methods create a space for interpretation and expand the discourse of experimental CVR documentary filmmaking. Walking into Dream offers a new immersive experience that challenges the boundaries between physical reality and virtual, non-fiction and imagination. This practice converges viewing experiences- haptic physical memory space installation, traditional 2D screens, and cinematic virtual reality- giving an experience of multisensory nested experience and walking in a dream.