The Yellow Wallpaper: VR Experience is a cinematic virtual reality narrative adapted from the classic Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story where a viewer to explore the intense psychological effects of an Victorian “rest cure.”
Follow along as your trapped narrator secretly writes a journal while enduring doctor’s orders – a summer retreat that is anything but restorative. With the unique option to swap the female and male characters, a viewer can question gender assumptions as they experience a tale of goth horror and cultural questioning in a new light.
COMING 2021
Director’s Statement
With The Yellow Wallpaper: VR Experience, I want viewers to delve into Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s classic feminist story in a completely new way. By using interactivity to reverse the character roles, viewers can see for themselves Gilman’s own philosophy that we are humans more than any one gender. By weaving 360 live-action in a virtual reality environment with hand-painted animation, viewers can explore how humanity copes with repression through escapism and self-expression in art. I seek to promote healing through emotional growth inspired directly from experiences of social isolation and trauma. By presenting audiences with different modes of relating to each other, my work encourages new possibilities for individuals to define themselves.
– Juli Jackson