Post-binary

Genre : VR, experimental
Expected duration : 10-12 minutes
Author and director: Diane Dormet
The experience will be developed in two versions : one for festivals and events, one for online platforms

A VR experience that bends reality

Post Binary is an immersive VR experience inside the mind of Ciel, a being searching for meaning in a world that doesn’t fit.
A strange, playful, slightly rebellious journey into an offbeat, unpredictable universe that goes beyond duality and reality, where rules bend and new possibilities explode. The experience sparks discovery, connection, and a reimagined sense of belonging.

PITCH

Post Binary is an immersive VR experience that reimagines the creation of a new world—beyond the dualistic norms we know—through the metaphor of a cosmic reset. Through the eyes of Ciel, who struggles to find their place in the world, the user witnesses the birth of a universe shaped by a mind that challenges what it has been taught and seeks to carve out its own space.

The journey begins in a surreal, almost nightmarish universe symbolizing the worldview Ciel has inherited. Here, Ciel destroys a reality that has kept them confined. From there, they realize they can shape a new kind of body—as freely as they reshape their mind—beyond norms and physical limits. This body, strange and almost magical, mutates and expands, becoming the seed of a beautifully uncanny universe where all entities share a collective consciousness. Transforming emptiness into belonging, Ciel finally finds meaning in existence.

Using the body as a metaphor for the self, this experience is an intimate, playful, and slightly punk journey into transformation, identity, and shared existence—an invitation to question what we’ve been told and to reinvent how we exist in the world, both as individuals and together.

From Void to Connection : Rethinking Identity and Belonging

This VR experience emerges from the author’s personal journey with their non-binary identity. To be non-binary—more specifically agender—is to exist beyond the male/female spectrum, suspended in a space that feels like nothingness. But this void isn’t emptiness within—it’s the world around you that fails to resonate.

Yet this is not a project about gender. While it begins with the author’s reflection on their non-binary identity, it speaks to a broader sense of being “out of sync”—of feeling strange, different, or outside the norms in many aspects of life.

Post Binary transforms this experience into a universal one: the feeling of being out of place when you don’t fit the molds. It envisions a reality beyond rigid binaries—of gender, but also of thought, identity, and belonging. In this imagined space, nothingness becomes possibility: a starting point to rethink existence and community, reimagine reality itself, and discover new ways of connecting with each other that transcend what we thought possible.