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A foggy tiled bathhouse hall in VRChat, with a long pool, hanging lamps, and light through a row of arches.

GoEast

A bathhouse in VRChat for goEast's Cinema Archipelago. The 2022 edition was Tales from the Bathhouse. The hall came back in 2023.

  • VRChat
  • goEast
  • 2022–2023
  • Cinema Archipelago

Wiesbaden, 2022–2023

The festival needed a shared place.

Worldbuild delivered digital art, worldbuilding, and production for goEast Film Festival's XR programme, with goEast, DFF, and Georgy Molodtsov.

In 2022, Tales from the Bathhouse rebuilt the Kaiser Friedrich Spa in VRChat around three new works, including Bloodbath. In 2023 the venue returned with three new projects and updated versions of the previous year's works.

Programme
Cinema Archipelago, 2022 and 2023.
2022
Tales from the Bathhouse. Three new works, including Bloodbath.
2023
The bathhouse returned, with three new VR projects and updates of the 2022 works.
Worldbuild
Digital art, worldbuilding, and production. Dale P. Deacon.
Partners
goEast Film Festival, DFF, and Georgy Molodtsov.

2023 hall

Festival works

What it had to prove

A strand is a place, not only a list of works.

A festival XR programme needs orientation and atmosphere, and a record that outlives the physical screening room.

The bathhouse is that room. The individual works keep their own makers. Bloodbath later received the Spirit of Raindance award.

Credits

Digital art, worldbuilding, and production
Dale P. Deacon
Worldbuild
Programme partners
goEast Film Festival
DFF
Georgy Molodtsov
Hammam World
Naz Akgül
Lorenzo Carly
George Dawson
Exotic With The Happy Ending
Faina Yunusova
Artem Vlasov

The record

The festival pages and the VRChat world are the public listing.

To talk to Worldbuild about the build, write to Dale.