Nana Lou

Synopsis

Immersed in the world of the spirits of the ancestresses, you are appointed, with two other guides, to accompany Nana Lou on her last journey. 

On the day her granddaughter Clementine gives birth in a maternity hospital in Tokyo, Nana Lou has a stroke at home in France. She finds herself at the hospital, stranded between life and death... By your luminous presence at her side, you help her revisit her memories and pass away in peace.

Nana Lou is a VR interactive animated short film inviting the viewer to play a spirit accompanying a grandmother during her last moments. By your luminous presence at her side, you will comfort the main character as she faces medical ordeals and help her revisit her memories to make her last journey a wonderful story.

Illuminate Nana Lou's last journey

Inspired by the pioneering work of physician Elisabeth Kübler Ross on end-of-life care, the experience invites the viewer to engage using their gaze and hands. Their luminous presence warms the room, catching Nana Lou's attention, and their hands provide comfort, sparking her joyful memories. She responds with a glance or a gesture, and an object from her past materializes, floating as a projection of her memory. By delving into Nana Lou's memories, the viewer slowly lights up the past, reliving a scene in the intimacy of the character.

However, untangling Nana Lou's memories isn't easy: with every medical intervention she receives, the viewer is thrust back into the Tree of Life, navigating its branches to return to Granny Lou's room. The transformation of the Tree of Life symbolizes her condition, with each new sequence representing a stage in her illness's advancement.

A fantastic, emotional, and sensory journey through three unique worlds

This experience is unique due to the multiple perspectives offered and the interactive relationship between the user and the character.

In the Tree of Life, the user floats in the mist above a suffering plant world. He’s guided by spirits towards different miniature rooms, where they can see Nana Lou and other characters by her side. Then he steps into these rooms, which is expanded to human scale, where he takes on a physical presence alongside Nana Lou. Finally, when a piece of a memory appears, the user dives into Nana Lou's memory, adopting her viewpoint.

Each state is located in settings with distinct worlds. The Tree of Life, a gigantic plant on an immeasurable scale, represents a fantastical world, an ecosystem of luminescent plants fed by a luminescent sap and the home of sparkling spirits. In contrast, Nana Lou's clinical room is cold and realistic, its simplicity offering calm to accommodate the viewer's warmth. Lastly, Nana Lou's depict personal spaces, invaded by plants, hybrid vegetation, and ordinary objects that occasionally start to float and come to life.