STOLP
STOLP is another collaboration between Annelies Van Hijfte and Joren. This new VR opera experience is a twenty-minute immersive performance in which the audience finds themselves in a large, palatial greenhouse. They follow a woman who haunts it in self-isolation and tends the plants around her. The space is disturbed by outside elements, but the more violently the woman resists them, the more the glass walls begin to crack, compromising her internal struggle to keep her safe, enclosed world intact. Eventually the greenhouse opens up, and the woman, together with the plants, embraces the inevitable change.
The amazing pastel visuals of the experience are being developed by animation artist Juliette Pons.
Currently in development with support of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund.