Bodyless
About this game
Bodyless is a surreal VR journey emerging from childhood memory, shaped by the lingering shadow of Taiwan’s martial law era.
You inhabit the ghost of a political prisoner who died in confinement and returns during Ghost Month, drifting through the seams between memory and reality in search of home.
Folk belief and natural sensation form a fragile inner landscape, quietly infiltrated by an invisible mechanical order. Surveillance is omnipresent. Bodies, language, and memory are compressed into abstract, computable forms, as humanity gradually loses its weight in silence.
Bodyless is not a reconstruction of history, but a sensory meditation on disappearance and perception.
《Bodyess》｜Selected International Awards
Official Selection, Venice International Film Festival – VR Competition (2019)
Official Selection, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (2019)
Golden Mask Award, NewImages Festival (2019)
Jury Special Mention, Kaohsiung Film Festival (2019)
Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica (2020)
Best Virtual Reality, Los Angeles Film Awards (2020)
Achievements
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Shedding the Mortal Coil
0.1%Bid farewell to decaying flesh and reshape dignity amidst netherworld powders upon completing the Makeup scene.
The Shores of Faith
0.1%Rise with flames and dive into the Pure Land; witness the convergence of prayers after leaving the Mirror Garden.
Echoes of Bloodline
0.1%Return to the kitchen where warmth lingers; reclaim your name within the conduits of memory by finishing the Breakfast Room.
The Final Reduction
0.1%Pass through digital disinfection and incineration; witness the endgame of pixelation after finishing the entire experience.
Hovering Spirit
0.1%Detach from the crowd and linger atop the pailou for 10 seconds, gazing from above at the fire that purges the pestilence.
Bodyless is a surreal VR experience based on the director's childhood memory during Taiwan's martial law period in the 1970s. The player becomes a deceased political prisoner's ghost in his journey to find his way home.