CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE IN IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING
CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE IN IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING
CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE IN IMMERSIVE STORYTELLING
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The Annwn Prize awards the best story-driven work made through the use of creative technology from around the world.
It recognises works that make audiences feel like an active and integral part of the piece, and utilise technologies that enhance, augment or transform our sense of reality.
The Annwn Prize awards the best story-driven work made through the use of creative technology from around the world.
It recognises works that make audiences feel like an active and integral part of the piece, and utilise technologies that enhance, augment or transform our sense of reality.
Nominated by a community of international curators and commentators, four shortlisted works will be showcased in a major exhibition at Wales Millennium Centre, giving an opportunity for audiences to experience the very best work from across the world in the UK.
A jury of experts and well-known faces will select the winning artist or studio, who will receive a £20,000 prize and a bespoke residency to support the development of new work.
Nominated by a community of international curators and commentators, four shortlisted works will be showcased in a major exhibition at Wales Millennium Centre, giving an opportunity for audiences to experience the very best work from across the world in the UK.
A jury of experts and well-known faces will select the winning artist or studio, who will receive a £20,000 prize and a bespoke residency to support the development of new work.

2027 LONGLIST


Min-Wei Kuo
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up
After his wife’s tragic death, Guan receives her unfinished novel—a story intertwining the endangered clouded leopard and the Rukai tribe’s sacred origin myth. Driven by grief and curiosity, he embarks on a surreal journey into the mountains and her subconscious, guided by her words and the ancestral echoes of the forest, in search of answers, healing, and connection. Adapted by a story from acclaimed Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi, The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up is a single-user, free-roaming VR experience where the boundaries between memory, reality, and myth dissolve.

The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up

The Walkers Films


Min-Wei Kuo
The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up
After his wife’s tragic death, Guan receives her unfinished novel—a story intertwining the endangered clouded leopard and the Rukai tribe’s sacred origin myth. Driven by grief and curiosity, he embarks on a surreal journey into the mountains and her subconscious, guided by her words and the ancestral echoes of the forest, in search of answers, healing, and connection. Adapted by a story from acclaimed Taiwanese author Wu Ming-Yi, The Clouds Are Two Thousand Meters Up is a single-user, free-roaming VR experience where the boundaries between memory, reality, and myth dissolve.


Maximilian Mayrshofer
Dark Rooms
Dark Rooms is a multiplayer free-roam VR experience — an animated documentary in which audiences physically wander through intimate stories of sexuality, identity, trauma, and transformation, narrated by the people who lived them. Four protagonists co-created their stories under the principle "nothing about us, without us," leading visitors through nightclubs, back rooms, and dreamlike worlds with a touch of dark fairytale. At each story's core is an emotional journey — longing, fear, trust, and release. A Danish–German–Taiwanese co-production, premiered at Venice Immersive 2025 and awarded at NewImages Paris 2026.

Dark Rooms

Morph


Maximilian Mayrshofer
Dark Rooms
Dark Rooms is a multiplayer free-roam VR experience — an animated documentary in which audiences physically wander through intimate stories of sexuality, identity, trauma, and transformation, narrated by the people who lived them. Four protagonists co-created their stories under the principle "nothing about us, without us," leading visitors through nightclubs, back rooms, and dreamlike worlds with a touch of dark fairytale. At each story's core is an emotional journey — longing, fear, trust, and release. A Danish–German–Taiwanese co-production, premiered at Venice Immersive 2025 and awarded at NewImages Paris 2026.


Robertina Šebjanič, Marco Barotti
Fossilised Futures
Fossilized Futures is an immersive opera - audiovisual installation that is linking ancient ecosystems, present landscapes, and imagined futures. Through multichannel sound, river data, and human voices, it explores connections between time, ecology, and human activity, guided by fossil memory and living rivers. Two figures guide the story: Studiella devonica, a fossil species from the Devonian period, and the Atlantic salmon of the Meuse River, whose struggle for survival reflects the tensions between deep time, natural resilience, and human disturbance. The work connects local river ecologies with wider histories and futures flowing across geographies.

Fossilised Futures

Robertina Šebjanič, Marco Barotti


Robertina Šebjanič, Marco Barotti
Fossilised Futures
Fossilized Futures is an immersive opera - audiovisual installation that is linking ancient ecosystems, present landscapes, and imagined futures. Through multichannel sound, river data, and human voices, it explores connections between time, ecology, and human activity, guided by fossil memory and living rivers. Two figures guide the story: Studiella devonica, a fossil species from the Devonian period, and the Atlantic salmon of the Meuse River, whose struggle for survival reflects the tensions between deep time, natural resilience, and human disturbance. The work connects local river ecologies with wider histories and futures flowing across geographies.


Emma Roberts
Gondwana
Contracting 100 years of climate data into a day’s exhibition, Gondwana is a constantly-evolving virtual ecosystem that explores the possible futures of the world’s oldest rainforest, the Daintree. Like the rainforest itself, Gondwana is a system of possibilities. Weather, seasons, and biodiversity shift and change as users freely explore a vast map of wild rivers, rugged gorges and ancient trees. But a broader narrative stirs below: over time, the rainforest procedurally degenerates, fed by climate data projections. The only salve to this seemingly inevitable decline is people: the more time spent in the rainforest, the more resilient it becomes. Each showing of this installation is unrepeatable and speculative: a meditation on time, change and loss in an irreplaceable ecosystem.

Gondwana

Pernickety Split


Emma Roberts
Gondwana
Contracting 100 years of climate data into a day’s exhibition, Gondwana is a constantly-evolving virtual ecosystem that explores the possible futures of the world’s oldest rainforest, the Daintree. Like the rainforest itself, Gondwana is a system of possibilities. Weather, seasons, and biodiversity shift and change as users freely explore a vast map of wild rivers, rugged gorges and ancient trees. But a broader narrative stirs below: over time, the rainforest procedurally degenerates, fed by climate data projections. The only salve to this seemingly inevitable decline is people: the more time spent in the rainforest, the more resilient it becomes. Each showing of this installation is unrepeatable and speculative: a meditation on time, change and loss in an irreplaceable ecosystem.


Michael Rau
temping
Sarah Jane Tully, a 53-year-old actuary, is taking her first vacation in years, and you’ve been hired to cover for her. TEMPING, the strange and comic tale of an employee’s inner life is performed for an audience of one by a Windows PC, a corporate phone, a laser printer and the Microsoft Office Suite. Filling in at Sarah Jane’s cubicle, you’ll update client records, send emails, and eavesdrop on intra-office romance. Congratulations you’re the new temp! Get ready to work. With no live performers, the piece interacts with the single audience member and challenges them with themes of human interaction through technology, isolation, and death. Contrasting the anonymity of an Excel spreadsheet with furtive moments of human intimacy, TEMPING brings you deep into the heart of corporate America.

temping

Wolf 359


Michael Rau
temping
Sarah Jane Tully, a 53-year-old actuary, is taking her first vacation in years, and you’ve been hired to cover for her. TEMPING, the strange and comic tale of an employee’s inner life is performed for an audience of one by a Windows PC, a corporate phone, a laser printer and the Microsoft Office Suite. Filling in at Sarah Jane’s cubicle, you’ll update client records, send emails, and eavesdrop on intra-office romance. Congratulations you’re the new temp! Get ready to work. With no live performers, the piece interacts with the single audience member and challenges them with themes of human interaction through technology, isolation, and death. Contrasting the anonymity of an Excel spreadsheet with furtive moments of human intimacy, TEMPING brings you deep into the heart of corporate America.


Myriam Achard
Blur
Blur announces a new myth for the modern age, where science has changed how we think about life and death. With the advent of cloning and advancements in resurrection biology, we’re dissolving the boundaries separating the living from the dead—the natural from the artificial. This extended reality theatrical production unfolds as a dreamscape, shifting subtly between the real and the virtual world as participants are taken on a journey of reflection on grief and eternality.

Blur

PHI Studio


Myriam Achard
Blur
Blur announces a new myth for the modern age, where science has changed how we think about life and death. With the advent of cloning and advancements in resurrection biology, we’re dissolving the boundaries separating the living from the dead—the natural from the artificial. This extended reality theatrical production unfolds as a dreamscape, shifting subtly between the real and the virtual world as participants are taken on a journey of reflection on grief and eternality.
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