Welcome to Wales Millennium Centre's first VR Cinema (daytime programme) - an exciting opportunity for audiences to experience 3 extraordinary virtual reality works back to back.
The Art of Change
The Art of Change is a deeply personal audio-visual journey that traverses time and space. Using a “feedback loop” of recorded voice memos addressed to past and future selves, it maps pivotal moments on a multi-sensory life map.
The project interweaves tape-recorded messages from various life stages within the music, narrating a woman’s story as she communicates with herself across time. The journey unfolds through past, present, and future, depicting archetypal experiences familiar to many: the majestic solitude of a large tree in the wilderness, the challenge of an insurmountable mountain peak, the mundanity of an ordinary office building, and the yearning to escape, along with more abstract, imaginary places.
The Art of Change reflects on life’s steps and their echo across time and space. Entirely painted and animated in VR using Quill, it offers a pioneering musical journey. Through virtual space, seamless transitions, and increasingly complex environments, this immersive project redefines how we appreciate music.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY - SIMONE FOUGNIER & VINCENT ROOIJERS
Simone Fougnier, aka Funilab, is a 38-year-old visual artist from Northern Italy, spent 15 years in the music industry before discovering VR and Quill in 2017. He served as writer, designer, and director for the award-winning VR series 'Tales from Soda Island' selected for Best Of Immersive at the 80th Venice Biennale and won the Golden Bee for Best VR Work at the 2024 Mediterrane Film Festival.
Vincent Rooijers, aka DROELOE, is a Netherlands-based producer, composer, and instrumentalist. His first solo concept album, 'The Art of Change,' is a personal journey through life—past, present, and future—featuring forward-thinking sounds and stunning visual art.
CREDITS
Directors Simone Fougnier, Vincent Rooijers
Production Funilab (Simone Fougnier), Studio Syro (Peter Ariet), Droeloe (Vincent Rooijers), Broken Levee (Megan Holland)
Screenplay Vincent Rooijers
Editor Simone Fougnier
Music Vincent Rooijers
Sound Vincent Rooijers, Peter Ariet
Art director, designer and artist Simone Fougnier
Lead developer Peter Ariet
Technical team Peter Ariet
Bodies of Water
The VR film BODIES OF WATER invites you to hold your breath and let yourself be transported and transformed by water in the company of curious individuals. As night falls, they invade a public swimming pool. These bodies of water, immersed in the watery mass, transgress the limits of their natural environment and metamorphose. They then engage in a contemporary dance that reveals them differently. The aquatic environment makes them supple and light, but also vulnerable and combative. This poetic mass, encompassing and suffocating, unites, separates and constitutes them. BODIES OF WATER explores the transformation of human bodies as they interact with water - a fluid and adaptable medium that simultaneously presents resistance. It takes you underwater for an immersive experience that unfolds an uncommon and otherwise inaccessible contemporary dance.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY - CHÉLANIE BEAUDIN-QUINTIN
Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin directs XR projects, dance and fiction films. Her first VR film 21 GUN SALUTE (2020) portrays the bonding relationship between robots and deminers. She currently works on the immersive script of L'ENFANT PERDU an animated VR film and she is releasing this year BODIES OF WATER (2024) an underwater VR film premiering at Mostra 81, À BRAS-LE-CORPS a dance film about protest and UNE MAISON DANS LA MAIN an AR opera using volumetric captures. Her work has been shown in Canada, Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, Germany and the United States.
CREDITS
Director Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin
Choreographer Carole Laurin-Beaucage.
Production Art et Essai (Jeanne-Marie Poulain, Laurence Wells, Irène Bessone, Line Sander Egede, Anaëlle Béglet, Rémi Dufresne).
Main Cast Léonie Bélanger, Rachel Harris, Jimmy Chung, Rowan Mercille, Luca “Lazylegz” Patuelli, Emmanuel Jouthe, Emmanuelle Martin, Marie-Ève Quiliquot, Diana Léon, Lorenzo Serafino, Alida Esmail, Ciro Melgaço, Cara Roy.
Screenplay Freely based on an original screenplay by Oriane Morriet
Cinematographer Pierre Mainville, Emmanuel Béhier-Migeon – Aquamedias
Editor Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin Alain Baril - Studio Post- Kopic
Costume Designer Camille Thibault-Bédard
Music Vincent Legault
Sound Bruno Bélanger - PRIM, Sabin Hudon, Léonardo Lamela
Technical team Sylvain - PostPix Louis-Philippe, Benjamin Huppé - UP2VR
Ôl | Haunts
It’s 2006. In a small town in North Wales, 16-year-old Morgan stands on the edge of his future, guiding us through haunts, hangouts and nights that linger long after the last bus leaves.
The year is 2006, Tony Blair is Prime Minister, Twitter has just been launched, and young people are quickly getting used to a world where social media and technology are beginning to take hold. 16-year-old Morgan, voiced by Callum Scott Howells (It’s a Sin) and Steffan Donnelly (Theatr Cymru), is searching to understand where he belongs, his journey set against the backdrop of a community in Llanberis - a small town at the foot of Snowdon in Wales.
Directed by Tomos Chetwode-Barton and Lucy Hammond (Monoliths, Traitor) with immersive concept development by Dreaming Methods, we are transported to a time when analog and digital worlds collide, sharing moments from Morgan’s life as he travels through this poetic rite-of-passage odyssey.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY - LUCY HAMILTON, TOMOS CHETWODE-BARTON & DREAMING METHODS
Lucy Hamilton
Lucy Hammond - Lucy is an Immersive Director living in North Yorkshire. Recent projects include ‘Haunts’ (2026) an English and Welsh language queer teenage VR experience about nights out in the middle of nowhere, ‘Monoliths’ (BFI London Film Festival 2022, Sheffield Docfest 2022, Melbourne International Film Festival 2022), celebrating the voices of northern women and the northern landscape and the 2019 VR piece, ‘Traitor’ which combines virtual reality, film and a live actor and premiered in competition at Tribeca Film Festival 2019.
Tomos Chetwode-Barton
Tom is a Welsh writer-director based in Anglesey, exploring themes of class, regional culture, mythology and gender. they were selected for the BAFTA x BFI flare mentorship scheme in 2020, and now have two Welsh language feature in development with FFilm Cymru Wales, and have directed a slate of branded docs for clients ranging from Smirnoff to The Running Channel.
Dreaming Methods - Judi Alston & Andy Campbell
Judi is the Co-Director and Creative Producer for Dreaming Methods and CEO of award winning arts organisation One to One Development Trust. A digital artist and filmmaker, she has been producing films, making collaborative digital fiction and writing for narrative-based video games for over two decades.
A pioneering writer, developer and digital artist, Andy has been working at the intersection of games, storytelling and interactive media since 1999 and has won many international awards. He has been the Digital Director for the pioneering arts organisation One to One Development Trust for over 20 years.
CREDITS
Concept by Lucy Hammond
Written by Tomos Chetwode-Barton
Directed by Tomos Chetwode-Barton and Lucy Hammond
Executive Producer for Wales Millennium Centre David Massey
Executive Creative Producer for Dreaming Methods Judi Alston and Andy Campbell
Immersive Creative Lead and Concept Development Dreaming Methods - Judi Alston and Andy Campbell
Narrated by Callum Scott Howells and Steffan Donnelly
Sound Engineer for narration Matt Collins
Narration recorded at Ty Cerdd Studios
Music supervisor Tin Drum Music
Haunts is a co-production between Wales Millennium Centre and Pilot Theatre
Music
“Slow Life”
Recorded by Super Furry Animals
Courtesy of BMG Rights Management (UK) Limited, a BMG Company (P) 2003
© Published by KMR Holdings L.P. Administered by Kobalt Music Publishing Limited
Used with permission. All rights reserved.
“Dyddiau Braf”
Performed by Llwybr Llaethog
Written by John Griffiths and Kevin Ford
Published by Reiat Music / Westbury Music Ltd
Licensed courtesy of Llwybr Llaethog
“Return Of Forever”
Performed by High Contrast
Written by Written by Lincoln Barrett, Published by Peermusic UK Ltd
Licensed courtesy of Highly Contrasting
"Szamár Madár”
Performed by Venetian Snares
Written by Aaron Funk, Published by Mute Song Ltd
Licensed courtesy of Planet Mu
“Antarctica Starts Here”
Written and performed by John Davies Cale
Published by Universal/Island Music Ltd. on behalf of Garnant Music
Licensed Courtesy of Domino Recording Company Limited (, PRS)
“Gwn Mi Wn”
Written and Performed by Gruff Rhys
Licensed courtesy of Gruff Rhys
Archive Material Courtesy of
BBC Cymru Wales, ITV Cymru Wales, and S4C and Museum of Youth Culture
Photographs in the bedroom taken by Michelle Sank, Ellie Ramsden and Catherine Booker.
Submission from the Museum of Youth Culture’s Grown up in Britain Campaign from Tamir Pettet.
Exhibition Designer:
Fran Norburn
Archival research and licensing work for the project:
Rhun M. Jones
Audiovisual and Creative Engagement Officer - National Library of Wales
Ywain Tomos
Participation Officer (Interpretation) - National Library of Wales
Jayne Day
Rights and Licensing Officer - National Library of Wales
Special thanks
Sophie Urquhart, Dominic Goodman, Dean Hinchliffe at Dreaming Methods, Lisa Der Weduwe, Lydia Durnall, James Clarke, Abi Fitzgerald, Bethan Hancock, Rhodri ap Dyfrig, Dafydd Tudur, and Ffion Wyn Morris.
Wales Millennium Centre, Pilot Theatre, Dreaming Methods, Wales Broadcast Archive, Museum of Youth Culture, supported by Heritage Lottery Fund, Arts Council Wales Logo
CONTENT WARNINGS
Reference to drug use and some strobing light scenes.
Please note, most people do not experience any negative reactions to Virtual Reality. However, VR may be disorientating for individuals who are neurodiverse, have hearing or sight impairments, or experience vertigo, epilepsy, dizziness, seizures, motion sickness or fainting.
Running Time: 35 minutes
Opening times:
Mon - Sun: 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm
Capacity: 15
Age Guidance: 12+
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult at all times
Access: This is a seated experience; there will be wheelchair access, but this is limited per time slot.
Language: English and Welsh
FAQ's
What can I expect from the experience?
These pieces are part of our VR cinema daytime programme; the total run time of all 3 is 35-minutes. This experience will require you to wear a Virtual Reality headset and headphones.
How long does the experience last?
The experience lasts approximately 35 minutes.
What equipment is necessary to participate in the experience?
Headphones and Virtual Reality headsets are used during this experience.
Is there staff on hand throughout?
Yes, our hosts will be on hand to guide and support throughout your entire experience.
Is the experience accessible to those with reduced mobility?
Yes, the experience is accessible to people with reduced mobility; you will remain seated throughout and minimal-no interaction is required throughout. However this experience does require visitors to wear a Virtual Reality headset. Please contact us before purchasing your ticket(s) if you have any questions or queries around this.
Is the experience accessible to children?
The age guidance is set at 12+. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult at all times.
