“My films tend to question the spectator on the state of the world and his capacity to change it” – Hsieh Wen-Yee, Sebox Hong (LIMBOPHOBIA, LIMBOTOPIA)

At the last NewImages festival in Paris, the Marketplace’s professional sessions featured the presentation of up-and-coming XR projects. Among these projects was Hsieh Wen-Yee’s LIMBOPHOBIA, the second part of a triptych (and a universe) that opened with its first chapter, LIMBOTOPIA, which was notably noticed at Tribeca 2022. Meeting with its author, and Sebox Hong, producer.

Sebox Hong – After the festival success of his first film LIMBOTOPIA, I wanted to join Hsieh Wen-Yee – an emerging digital artist on the Taiwanese scene – in the production of the second chapter, also a 360 animated film, LIMBOPHOBIA, for which we have already obtained the support of Kaohsiung Film Archive VR FILM LAB.