CineTech is a space where film, gaming, and immersive art meet. We call the works “experiences” because CineTech brings together everything from narrative video games to virtual reality and interactive film—mediums that invite you to participate rather than simply watch.
EXPERIENCES
/DX is a virtual reality art installation that brings the hidden fragments of film dialogue—the “cutting room floor” of post production—into an immersive 3D environment. Each snippet you never hear in the final cut is processed by removing a crackle, noise, breaths, mouth clicks, excessive room reverb, resonant hum, and sibilance. The unwanted scraps are bound to floating spheres. As you grab, toss, and move these spheres, Doppler shifts and room reverb algorithms reveal the raw, overlooked textures of dialogue editing, turning discarded audio into an interactive soundscape.
/DX
/DX is a virtual reality art installation that brings the hidden fragments of film dialogue—the “cutting room floor” of post production—into an immersive 3D environment. Read More→
Adam Schwartz
2025
4 minutes
Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this African Futurist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce out of the joint as fast as you can.
RELOOTED
Reclaim real African artifacts from Western museums in this African Futurist heist game. Recruit crew members, plan escape routes, acquire the precious cargo, and bounce Read More→
Nyamakop
2025
60 minutes
In Ecuador’s capital Quito, football fever is everywhere in the run-up to the 2002 Football World Cup. So, also in the home of eight-year-old Julián, where his parents watch football and talk about it. At school, too, where everyone looks forward to the break so they can kick a ball around—and again after school. Playfully, without a care in the world, every free moment seems to revolve around football.
DESPELOTE
In Ecuador’s capital Quito, football fever is everywhere in the run-up to the 2002 Football World Cup. So, also in the home of eight-year-old Julián, Read More→
Julián Cordero, Sebastian Valbuena
2023
United States
100 minutes
“Scent” is a cinematic game in which, as a dog, the player roams a war-torn city, witnesses mass atrocities, and carries out one quiet task—guiding human souls toward reincarnation.
Using simple controls, players embody the dog—walking, witnessing, hiding, and collecting souls from the bodies of the dead. Devoid of backstory or context, this game offers no resolution. Instead, it invites players into a meditative space of fear, darkness, and moments of hope. At its core, this cinematic game is about what it means to witness violence and suffering without power — to observe, absorb, and endure without the ability to change the outcome.
SCENT
“Scent” is a cinematic game in which, as a dog, the player roams a war-torn city, witnesses mass atrocities, and carries out one quiet task—guiding Read More→
Alan Kwan
2025
United States
16 minutes
SUPER BOXING ENGINE
Climb the ranks of the Super World Boxing Association by boxing it out with an original cast of characters!
Osei Bennu
2025
United States
60 minutes
Coded Black is a bold, narrative-driven experience that immerses players in the hidden and haunting histories of anti-Blackness in the US and UK.
This is an experience designed to be difficult – mentally and emotionally. Drawing from primary sources, historical records and scholarly analysis, Coded Black offers a journey through past atrocities and moments of triumph.
Explore two distinct, atmospheric scenes – a plantation and a modern 20th-century city – each filled with real historical documents and audio visual storytelling. With a structure that surfaces different content in each run, Coded Black is a narrative crafted for both personal reflection and educational engagement.
The game deals with the historical topic of slavery and racism, and therefore includes descriptions of violent acts, images of devices used for the chastisement of enslaved people, and archival imagery depicting victims of lynching. Note, there is a museum version available with the lynching images disabled.
CODED BLACK
Coded Black is a bold, narrative-driven experience that immerses players in the hidden and haunting histories of anti-Blackness in the US and UK. This is Read More→
Maisha Wester
2025
United Kingdom
90 minutes
Ancient Chinese immortals descend to mortal world seeking employment, competing to secure statues to inhabit—a reflection of social "involution." These statues metaphorically represent social classes: revered temple deities symbolize government authority; trendy office figurines parallel tech industry workers; urban village statues embody small business owners struggling to make ends meet; and neglected rural statues reflect elderly villagers left behind. The film also highlights the pragmatic persistence of Chinese worship, driven by tangible benefits and amplified by viral online trends. Using 3D scanning and glitch-art aesthetics, Chinese immortals portrays the collision between traditional culture and modern society.
XIAN'ER (CHINESE IMMORTALS)
Ancient Chinese immortals descend to mortal world seeking employment, competing to secure statues to inhabit—a reflection of social "involution." These statues metaphorically represent social classes: Read More→
Fang Zhou
2025
China
14 minutes
Lychgate reimagines the selection of The Chosen One in the iconic ballet The Rite of Spring, depicting a community of women performing a ritual, not to sacrifice, but to honor the unknown and empower one member to envision it. This 360º dance film blurs the boundaries between terrestrial and ethereal planes, sweeping the viewer up in the fervor of bodies moving in ceremony and synchronicity.
LYCHGATE
Lychgate reimagines the selection of The Chosen One in the iconic ballet The Rite of Spring, depicting a community of women performing a ritual, not Read More→
Malia Bruker, Ilana Goldman
2025
9 minutes
Honey Fungus is a 9-minute interactive VR experience led by a queer mycelial guide. Viewers embark on a sci-fi journey of ecological self-discovery, following the fungal reproductive cycle through a series of embodied vignettes. Descending as a spore into fertile soil, they encounter fungal-human hybrids, touch spores that release custom AI-generated eco-erotic poetry—drawn from Smithsonian field notes and amateur erotica—and spread mycelium through a living chamber of earth. The journey culminates in an ecstatic emergence into the global weather system. Blending science and sensuality, Honey Fungus dissolves boundaries between human and non-human life, inviting radical intimacy, care, and ecological reimagining.
HONEY FUNGUS
Honey Fungus is a 9-minute interactive VR experience led by a queer mycelial guide. Viewers embark on a sci-fi journey of ecological self-discovery, following the Read More→
Jonah King
2025
9 minutes
As part of a yearly Passover tradition at his Grandfather's house, a ten year old wanna-be detective, Freddy, has his eyes set on getting the prize money to go see his father, who is hospitalized. He faces a number of challenges, from trying to get clues as to where the prized piece of matzah may be hidden, to competition from his older brother. The audience must make decisions to explore exactly who Freddy is, and what he is truly capable of.
THE CASE OF THE MISSING AFIKOMEN
As part of a yearly Passover tradition at his Grandfather's house, a ten year old wanna-be detective, Freddy, has his eyes set on getting the Read More→
Zane Swift
2025
United States
9 minutes
Palimpsest is an interactive documentary that traces childhood fear and anxiety from the Cold War to school shootings in America, while along the way connecting Archimedes, Choose Your Adventure books, Baseball, Ray Bradbury, Charles Dickens, Peter Pan, John Fahey, Turtles, and every demographic cohort from The Greatest Generation to Gen Z. Palimpsest scrapes at this messy history in an attempt to reveal causes and solutions for one of America's greatest public health epidemics.
PALIMPSEST
Palimpsest is an interactive documentary that traces childhood fear and anxiety from the Cold War to school shootings in America, while along the way connecting Read More→
Robert A. Emmons Jr.
2025
United States
60 minutes
We are exposed to evaluations every day, where the norm by which they are made are usually out of our hands.
The story explores what we face in a world dominated by mechanisms of rating, measuring, and judging. Why is there so little diversity among those in power who assess us, especially when we seek change and growth? Is the evaluation truly systematic, or are the outcomes more random, shaped by factors beyond our control? This VR experience shifts the viewer’s role from observer to the observed, evaluated by 16 virtual characters, where a random algorithm determines whether the viewer is accepted or expelled from the environment.
THE CONTRAST OR ILLUSION
We are exposed to evaluations every day, where the norm by which they are made are usually out of our hands. The story explores what Read More→
Mariusz Borzyszkowski
2025
Poland
6 minutes
Step inside the world of Scent, a cinematic game by artist Alan Kwan that places players in the body of a dog wandering a war-torn city where they witness violence, loss, and fleeting hope. Join us for a live gameplay session led by the creator, followed by a Q&A about his process and the emotional language of interactive storytelling. The program will also feature curated cutscenes and gameplay from Relooted and despelote, two international titles that explore culture, memory, and play through uniquely immersive worlds.
FREE!! with registration
CineTech: Live
Step inside the world of Scent, a cinematic game by artist Alan Kwan that places players in the body of a dog wandering a war-torn Read More→
Scent
“Scent” is a cinematic game in which, as a dog, the player roams a war-torn city, witnesses mass atrocities, and carries out one quiet task—guiding Read More→
“Scent” is a cinematic game in which, as a dog, the player roams a war-torn city, witnesses mass atrocities, and carries out one quiet task—guiding human souls toward reincarnation.
Using simple controls, players embody the dog—walking, witnessing, hiding, and collecting souls from the bodies of the dead. Devoid of backstory or context, this game offers no resolution. Instead, it invites players into a meditative space of fear, darkness, and moments of hope. At its core, this cinematic game is about what it means to witness violence and suffering without power — to observe, absorb, and endure without the ability to change the outcome.
Relooted
An Africanfuturist heist game where you reclaim real life artifacts from Western museums and private collections.
Despelote
In Ecuador’s capital, Quito, football fever is everywhere in the run-up to the 2002 Football World Cup. So also in the home of eight-year-old Julián, Read More→
In Ecuador’s capital, Quito, football fever is everywhere in the run-up to the 2002 Football World Cup. So also in the home of eight-year-old Julián, where his parents watch football and talk about it. At school, too, where everyone looks forward to the break so they can kick a ball around—and again after school. Playfully, without a care in the world, every free moment seems to revolve around football.
Experience two interactive films that place audiences at the center of the story. In The Case of the Missing Afikomen, you guide a young boy’s search for meaning during a family Passover. In Palimpsest, your choices trace America’s tangled history of fear and violence from the Cold War to today. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Zane Swift, exploring how interactivity reshapes empathy, agency, and narrative.
FREE!! with registration
CineTech: Interactive
Experience two interactive films that place audiences at the center of the story. In The Case of the Missing Afikomen, you guide a young boy’s Read More→
The Case of the Missing Afikomen
As part of a yearly Passover tradition at his Grandfather's house, a ten year old wanna-be detective, Freddy, has his eyes set on getting the Read More→
As part of a yearly Passover tradition at his Grandfather's house, a ten year old wanna-be detective, Freddy, has his eyes set on getting the prize money to go see his father, who is hospitalized. He faces a number of challenges, from trying to get clues as to where the prized piece of matzah may be hidden, to competition from his older brother. The audience must make decisions to explore exactly who Freddy is, and what he is truly capable of.
Palimpsest
Palimpsest is an interactive documentary that traces childhood fear and anxiety from the Cold War to school shootings in America, while along the way connecting Read More→
Palimpsest is an interactive documentary that traces childhood fear and anxiety from the Cold War to school shootings in America, while along the way connecting Archimedes, Choose Your Adventure books, Baseball, Ray Bradbury, Charles Dickens, Peter Pan, John Fahey, Turtles, and every demographic cohort from The Greatest Generation to Gen Z. Palimpsest scrapes at this messy history in an attempt to reveal causes and solutions for one of America's greatest public health epidemics.