What if nature was just one click away? And to unwind you simply had to log on?
In ‘Unwind’, filmmaker Kate Colley, anticipates a future where we can access the most remote wonders of nature from the comfort of our homes – all we need is a headset and a monthly subscription to the landscape of our choice.
Relatively inclusive and accessible by design, VR could replace unsustainable tourist practices and improve the wellbeing of those in isolation. But whose vision is this?
Carefully manoeuvring between nostalgia and hope, ‘Unwind’, is a meditation over the contradictory promises of immersive technologies. If your VR experience allows you to engage all of your senses – hear the tropical birds, feel the water droplets on your face, smell the blossom – does it matter that none of it is real?


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Produced and Directed by Kate Colley
Filmed and Edited by Matt Jarvis
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A film funded by ‘Against Digital Fatalism’ funded by the Bristol Digital Futures Institute as well as the organising team
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Special Thanks To:
Andrés Domínguez Hernández, Ola Michalec, Peter Winter, Kruakae Pothong​ and Kobi Merrikin
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Shortlisted at Jackson Wild 2024