Regarded as a precursor to narrative VR and AR media, this collaboration between David Pledger and Jeffrey Shaw, world-renowned pioneer of interactive cinema, pushes cinematic and theatrical imaginaries to create the world’s first interactive, panoramic feature film.

Presented in a 360-degree purpose-built screen environment, the story follows 10 people forever repeating the last 9 minutes of their lives. Exploring terrain at once spiritual, moral, ethical, psychological and physical, the narrative is driven by any member of the public who, as the user-director, reveals the secrets embedded in the interconnected stories.

Part game, part real-time film-making, part spectator sport, Eavesdrop opens up a continuum of possibility, potential and proposition. There are no full stops, no grand gestures. Only forward movement. 

The user’s interaction with the material and the viewing audience creates a communal imagination of the actual and the virtual, a portal from what is to what might be.