THE BARDO


THE BODY IS A PERFORMATIVE SCORE IN THIS TRANSDISCIPLINARY INSTALLATION





...perhaps that’s what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I’m neither one side nor the other, I’m in the middle… 
– Samuel Beckett


THE BARDO brings together documentary film, dance, 360-degree immersive video, virtual interactivity and spatial design into a multimedia installation. Utilizing the physical interviews of TERRAIN, viewers are united through a shared experience of the body. A dynamic interplay of virtual-actual and individual-social mirrors THE BARDO as a kaleidoscopic environment where stories emerge, recede, fracture, and merge.







La Biennale di Venezia
(WORLD PREMIERE)
Queer Lion Award
(NOMINEE)

China Academy of Art - Sandbox Immersive Festival Hangzhou
Comédie de Genève Geneva
Design Center Flacon Moscow
Espace CENTQUATRE-PARIS – Diversion cinema Paris
ESPRONCEDA - Institute of Art & Culture Barcelona
Fondazione di Venezia - M9 – Museo del ‘900 Venice Mestre
HTC Corporation - VIVE ORIGINALS Taiwan
INVR. SPACE in partnership with VRBB and supported by Medienbord, Berlin
Laboratorio Aperto di Modena ex Centrale AEM, Modena
Laboratorio Aperto di Piacenza ex Chiesa del Carmine, Piacenza
Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen
PHI Center Montréal
Portland Art Museum & Northwest Film Center Portland
Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam
Koç University KARMA Lab in partnership with Soho House Istanbul

Directors LILY BALDWIN, SASCHKA UNSELD
Writers LILY BALDWIN, SASCHKA UNSELD
Co-Creators LILY BALDWIN, SASCHKA UNSELD, KUMAR ATRE
Producer JILL BASMAJIAN, ALETHA C. AVRAMIS, MARC WIENTZEK
Creative Producer MARC WIENTZEK
Berlin Producer YAN SCHOENEFELD, JUDITH LENTZE, BARBARA SIMON
Geneva Producer SAJAR SHAHNA
Spatial Design KUMAR ATRE WITH RAPT STUDIO
Director of Photography SASCHKA UNSELD
Editor LILY BALDWIN, SASCHKA UNSELD
Production Design KUMAR ATRE
Original Music and Sound YOU GUYS MUSIC
Additional Music SANNETY, BORIS RAPPO, MARASAL SALMASSI
Co-producer & Creative Consultant LOU SAVOIR
Executive Producer INVR SONKE KIRCHHOF
Post-Production Supervisor INVR PHILIPP WENNING
Colorist JAIME O’BRADOVICH

Featuring Kumar Atre, Nanghiti Avianko, Lily Baldwin, Deep Blue, Parvin Dokht, Joy Falquet, Sasha Gravat Harsch, Madame Lisa et ses filles, Lily Madera, Zeina Nassar, Charlotte Parfois, Clara Schramm, Daniil Simkin, and Loula Weber


© LILY BALDWIN / EAMS STUDIO 2025