VR experience

'My Identity Is This Expanse!' is a virtual reality film and installation written and directed by Karolina Markiewicz & Pascal Piron that tells the story of a child who, resilient to despair, seeks relief through memories, imagination, and the strength of poetry. Mahmoud Darwish’s poem, 'If I Were Another,' is both the child‘s and the viewer’s entrance into this realm of relief and resilience.

Combined with the memory of a missing mother and family, the poem guides and sustains the child amidst the grueling reality of exile, violence, and confinement to a wooden box — both a hiding place and mode of transport for refugee children.

The journey is based on the true story of Yunus Yusuf, who was transported under these circumstances from Afghanistan to Luxembourg at the age of 13. It is also the story of millions of other refugee children and adults, both today and throughout history.

'My Identity Is This Expanse!' received the award for BEST SOUND at the 360 Film Festival 2020 in Paris.