Three participants sit at a control table with headphones, microphones, beatpads, command buttons, and an interrogation protocol.
Recovered EvidenceImpact Site 04Signal unstable
Immersive Installation
OCTOPOCALYPSE
Three humans. One alien intelligence. Four decisions before extinction.
Initial Briefing
Octopocalypse is an 18-minute immersive experience for three participants. Inside a darkened control room, audiences confront a recovered alien organism, a collapsing world, and a protocol that asks them to choose between interrogation and trust.
The Experience
An immersive interrogation experience about crisis, empathy, control, and first contact.
A controlling voice routes instructions through crisis broadcasts, audiovisual feeds, and escalating command pressure.
Participants speak, select feeds, activate buttons, and trigger responses from an alien organism under visible stress.
Aggressive extraction returns faster data but damages the being; pattern matching, communication, and patience can open trust.
The group must make four collective decisions before the system reaches extinction protocol.
Installation
A compact, self-contained control chamber built for festival and venue operation.
Glass Sphere
Control table
Central sphere
Pepper's Ghost window
Newsfeed panels
Participant stations
Local playback/control system
Audience3 active participants per cycle
RuntimeApprox. 18 minutes
FootprintPreferred 4m x 4m; compact 3m x 3m possible
SystemSelf-contained local playback and control
Runtime NetworkNo external internet required
StaffingOne operator / technician for setup, reset, and audience flow
Story World
A command structure collapses around a living question.
After an unexplained impact event, a non-human organism is recovered alive. It appears to possess advanced intelligence, predictive response behavior, and a form of communication that exceeds human categories. Under pressure from a collapsing command structure, three participants must decide whether to extract knowledge, obey the protocol, or protect the being in front of them.
First contactExtractive intelligenceEmpathy under pressureCrisis ethicsHuman fear of the unknownCommunication beyond languageThe violence of protocolThe possibility of trust
Media
A CMS-style gallery ready for videos, stills, diagrams, and festival documentation.
moving image
Teaser video
18-minute cycle fragments and trailer cutdowns
key art
Hero image
classified impact photograph and sphere evidence
stills
Production stills
control room, table states, participant closeups
development
Concept art
organism behavior, distress patterns, memory bloom
technical
Installation renders
booth layout, sightlines, reset positions
process
Behind-the-scenes photos
fabrication, rehearsal, control tests
archive
Festival documentation
audience flow, venue setup, press views
press
Press images
approved editorial stills and project images
rig
Technical diagrams
signal routing and Pepper’s Ghost assembly
News
Placeholder announcements for festival, build, media, and venue updates.
Octopocalypse selected for Venice Immersive
Prototype build begins
First teaser released
Installation documentation coming soon
Festival and venue announcements
Press
A concise industry dossier for curators, venues, partners, and journalists.
Short synopsis
Three participants interrogate an oracle-like alien intelligence inside a failing crisis control system. Their choices shape the organism’s stress, audiovisual output, and the possibility of trust.
Long synopsis
Humanity has been saved by a species it does not understand. Now, in panic, it risks destroying the only intelligence that may help it survive. Octopocalypse asks whether crisis makes us more brutal, or more capable of empathy.
Creator bio
Max Sacker / AnotherWorld creates immersive audiovisual works that combine interactive systems, cinematic worldbuilding, and live audience decision-making.
Download Press KitTitle
Octopocalypse
Format
Multi-user immersive installation
Runtime
Approx. 18 minutes
Audience
3 active participants per cycle
Setup
Preferred 4m x 4m, compact 3m x 3m possible
Interaction
Microphones, headphones, command buttons, beatpads, audiovisual feeds, collective decision-making
System
Self-contained local playback/control system
Visual language
Black-and-white disaster documentary, crisis broadcasts, retro control-room interfaces, glowing alien patterns, Pepper’s Ghost, glass sphere, water, signal noise, prophetic data imagery
Creator
Max Sacker / AnotherWorld
Contact
For festivals, venues, press, partnerships, licensing, investment, and technical enquiries.