DARK ROOMS, 2025 -
Virtual Reality, Installation
Premiered at the Venice Film Biennale 2025
CPH: DOX
Dark Rooms is an exploration of human psychology through the prism of sexuality. The viewer and two other participants are invited to explore four inner spaces, each one a private, intimate story told and co-created by real people. A unique, embodied experience, guiding the users step by step into the heart of human desire and the shadows it casts.
Dark Rooms is a sensory, site-specific and immersive installation that confronts the audience with their own bias and boundaries, exposing our deepest longings and the forces that may shape our sexual identities.
Director: Mads Damsbo, Laurits Flensted Jensen, Anne Sofie Steen Sverdrup
Production: Morph Film (Maximilian Mayrshofer, Kate Lis, Bjarke Due Gunslev), NowHere Media (Gayatri Parameswaran, Felix Gaedtke, Lilian Hess, Mia von Kolpakow, Agnieszka Kracla), NAXS Studio (Han-Yu Feng, Chin-Hsuan Sung, Dai-Yun Nien), Makropol (Mads Damsbo), Bedside Productions (Anne Sofie Steen Sverdrup)
Running Time: 35’
Language: English
Country: Denmark, Germany, Taipei
Main Cast: Anjay, Trixie D., F.L., yaalioness
Screenplay: Laurits Flensted-Jensen, Mads Damsbo, Anne Sofie Steen Sverdrup, Gayatri Parameswaran, Anjay, Trixie D., F.L., yaalioness
Music: kling klang klong
Sound: Mads Michelsen, Peter Seeba, Mia von Kolpakow, Helen Hess, Sound recording studio e19 Studios
Art direction: Ville Vidø, Han-Yu Feng
Production designer: Ville Vidø
Lead developers: Yu-Jie Huang, Mathias Rodrigues Bjerre
Developers: Gim Chuang, Kuokpan Wong, Kevin Hsieh, Yi Kuo, Benjamin Bække, Casper Øbro, Developer Tore Knabe
Editor: Volucap (Sven Bliedung von der Heide, Torsten Schimmer, Elizabete Vindule-Mince, Philipp Hundertpfund, Sascha Schwarz, David Kutschke, Arianna Ferraris)
Artists: Kevin Hsieh, Wei Huang, Carl Emil Carlsen, Monique Kühn
Technical team: Handler Filip Myrberg