Inspired by the loss of his grandfather, writer-director Erick Oh takes a deeply personal story into the virtual reality space for Namoo.
Coming off of an Oscar nomination for his last animated short Opera, Oh returns with an equally complex short filled with many discoveries.Namoo, which is Korean for “tree,” is a narrative poem, held close to Oh’s heart for 10 years, told in an animated virtual reality space.
The animated short follows the journey of a man’s life, from beginning to end, next to a tree that collects all of his memories.
As he goes through the highs and lows of life, from love to loss, his tree changes and reflects how a person buries their hurt memories.In his first foray into virtual reality storytelling, Oh decided to
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