Between meetings at IFFR, the conversation with Isobel Knowles and Van Sowerwine quickly moved beyond the usual “how did you make it?” Because THE WORLD CAME FLOODING IN isn’t just another XR title on a festival slate. It’s a deliberate attempt to stage the afterlife of a climate disaster—the 2022 floods in eastern Australia—using immersion as a space for listening, moving, and rebuilding. You could label it “documentary VR” and stop there, but that would miss the point. Their real question is sharper: how do you represent what remains—objects, routines,…
THE WORLD CAME FLOODING IN: Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine on Crafting Climate Memory in Immersive Storytelling
