« Goliath traite de la senté mentale avec gravité tout en restant ludique. Les participants sont pris en même temps dans l’action enthousiasmante du jeu et dans le drame irréel de la psychose » — XR Must.

GOLIATH: PLAYING WITH REALITY follows the true life story of a man with troubled upbringing, who experiences severe hallucinations and anxiety, and is diagnosed with schizophrenia. He is taken into a psychiatric hospital for many years, where he is mostly in isolation and on increasingly strong medication. Yet on his release, he finds friends and connection through playing online multiplayer computer games. Through visual and tactile moments, you are invited to step inside a “broken” mind that slips and slides between real and unreal worlds. This experience invites us to question how we understand reality.

Goliath talks about the places we choose to feel safe in. It is an exploration of what it means to experience someone else’s reality. It goes beyond the theme of mental illness, introducing users to a world where things aren’t as they seem. This story helps us grasp how fragile reality is and how easy it is to lose sight of it.

Tribeca Film Festival / Storyscapes – 2021

Une production ANAGRAM, FLORÉAL FILMS et OCULUS. Avec le soutien du CNC (Expériences Numériques), de la NATIONAL FILM & TV SCHOOL (UK), de CREATIVE XR, du BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE et de BIENNALE COLLEGE (Mostra di Venezia).