Fragile Home
What would you do if your home appeared to be in danger? Would you stay or leave? Every day, since the war began, millions of Ukrainians have been asking themselves this question. Fragile Home is an immersive mixed reality experience that poses this question to each of us. Through the medium of mixed reality, you can experience the gradual transformation of your familiar surroundings into the dwelling of a Ukrainian family, spanning from a peaceful past to the tumultuous present. As you navigate through your space, the voices of Ukrainian people in traditional melodies accompany you, guiding you under the roof of your very own memories and feelings associated with your home.
Ondřej is an independent director, screenwriter and producer. His debut VR project Darkening premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2022 and later it was nominated for the Czech Lion Award (Czech Oscars). His next project Fresh Memories: The Look premiered at the SXSW festival. The second part of the project Fragile Home was shown in Venice, Tribeca, IDFA and other festivals. The project won the Cristal Award at Annecy Film Festival for the best VR project. All Ondřej’s projects were shown at more than 50 festivals worldwide. In 2022 he founded the festival ART*VR - first exclusively immersive XR festival in Central and Eastern Europe.
Victoria founded the ZViT studio - an indie ukrainian studio in which with her son Tim Voronkin developed and created projects in virtual reality. When the war in 2022 started, they created their first VR CHAT experience Bloodbath which premiered at Raindance festival in 2022. Victoria started her career as an architect. She worked for several studios in Ukraine. Then she started shifting toward the audiovisual industry. She worked in Dovzhenko Film Studios as a set up artist. Since 2020 she worked as VR architect and CEO in ZViT studio and lived in Prague, Czech Republic. She died in October 2024.
