ABOUT
What Happened With Ophelia is a multi-media ARG horror project designed with surrealistic images and cultural Filipino themes of colonialism.
This project was developed in order to help address the observed unfamiliarity in navigating surrealism by those that don’t regularly consume surrealistic media through exposing these audiences to the base techniques used by surrealist artists and a guided narrative experience that lets them experience meaning-making by redefining ambiguous elements and context clues firsthand.
WHAT IS SURREALISM?
“Pure psychic automatism, by means of which it is proposed to express, be it through writing, verbally or in any other way, the real functioning of thought; of the dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason and outside all moral or aesthetic concerns.”
- Salvador Dali
VISUAL METAPHORS IN SURREALISM
Lighting
Color
Space
Automatism
Juxtaposition
Composition
SURREALISM IN FILM
Surrealism in the Philippines is not just limited to artworks; filmmakers have also started creating films involving surrealistic visual themes.
READY TO PLAY?
Challenge yourself on your ability to make meaning out of surrealistic visual elements from a narrative.