Feature Film

LIMBOPHOBIA

In a haunting, misty world where the boundaries between reality and the digital blur, a journey through existential terror unfolds as chaos and collapsing structures challenge the very essence of existence.

Produced by

Sebox Hong

Directed by

Wen-Yee Hsieh

Project Description

Limbophobia opens with a dramatic quote from the book Will Grayson, Will Grayson: “I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.” This spiritual crisis in a dark border region forms the introduction to Wen-Yee Hsieh’s misty nocturnal world in which visitors find themselves in twilight zones of existential terror. The powerful black and white graphics making up this hallucinatory world blur the boundaries between the real and the digital, the solid and the ephemeral, the eternal and the temporary. What starts as a glance through a misty window on a storm-swept beach turns into a wild ride into increasingly unstable realities rocked by explosions and collapsing buildings. All this is accompanied by music that sounds like the slow breath of the collective unconscious.

About the Director

A young artist from Taiwan who poses questions about the relationship between visual art, and architecture. Fascinated by supernatural beings, his works reflect social phenomena and the mystery of life. HSIEH injected himself into works of art, that form a line of energy questioning the individual's state against the environment. Hsieh’s VR debut 《LIMBOTOPIA in VR》(2021) was nominated by Tribeca Film Festival for the Immersive New Voices competition in 2022,and won the Best VR Prize in AniFilm in the Czech Republic. In 2024, he was once again selected by the 2024 Tribeca Festival immersive section. Created the infinite mirror installations《THE GREAT FILTER》 and《INVISIBLE THEM》 for New York's art museum, Mercer Labs. Hsieh’s next-level VR film《LIMBOPHOBIA》(2024) is selected by several European festivals, including Prague, Geneva, and Amsterdam in the winter of 2024.