Nox

Year: 2026

Material/Technique: Video, Digital, Led

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Nox

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Year
2026
Material/Technique
Video, Digital, Led
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Digital, Portrait, Self Portrait, Outsider Art, Emotional, Society / Politics / History, Animation, Others

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“Nox” is an autobiographical immersive experiential work that explores trauma, dissociation, and the fragile boundary between existence and disappearance.

Based on the director's own experiences living with complex PTSD, this film transforms mental states such as identity fragmentation, depersonalization, and Alice in Wonderland syndrome into spatial stories and physical interactions.

While being guided by a quiet voice, participants advance through a dreamy world composed of memories, pictures, sounds, and fragments of consciousness born from within the traumatic experience. Hands are distorted, space collapses, perception fluctuates, and the participants' own bodies also become part of a landscape where reality becomes unstable and the self begins to melt.

Through interaction without a controller, the transition between VR and MR, and intimate first-person narration, “Nox” invites participants into the unstable space created by it rather than simply observing trauma from the outside.

In a world shaped by loss, isolation, and dissociation, this work depicts a quiet walk towards beauty, connection with others, and the will to continue living.

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Rio Nakada
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Rio Nakada

Media Artist

Born in 2007, Rio Nakada is an artist, filmmaker, and creative technologist working across drawing, XR, and interactive media. Their practice explores perception, embodiment, memory, consciousness, and the boundary between inner and outer worlds. Drawing on personal experience and research, Nakada transforms psychological and sensory states that resist language into works encountered through the body.

In intuitive drawings, pre-verbal thoughts and emotions emerge as traces of perception. In VR and MR works, touch, dissociation, perceptual distortion, and fragmented memory become spatial narratives and embodied interactions. Major works include Tactus, an MR experience that evokes tactile sensation through vision, and Nox, an XR documentary rooted in lived experience of complex PTSD. Nox was selected for CineMart’s Lightroom programme at the 55th International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Tactus received the NICOGRAPH 2024 Best Demo Award. Nakada studies at Keio University.

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07.14.2026