What is this project about?
“What happened with Ophelia” is a multimedia interactable project designed to allow
viewers to experience an original surrealistic horror story through a web comic
while exercising their analytical skills in an ARG game.
The story follows Ophelia, a student consumed by the horrors of colonial
beauty standards in the Philippines. Viewers will have to progress through the
web comic, looking for clues to further progress in the game and
unlock the resolution of the comic as well as other interesting information
about Ophelia’s backstory and the world he lives in.
What is Surrealism Art and what about it?
Surrealistic Art is where an artist expresses themselves by creating art that
show absurdity or abnormal realities whilst also rationalizing it all as they
believe it represents a feeling or a thought that is suppressed within them.
Surrealism remains an unexplored and underappreciated artistic style within the Philippines. While
the Philippine industry previously produced surrealistic horror films such as Puti, Filipino
audiences have shown to have difficulty in understanding, interpreting, and analyzing these
surrealistic works.
What do we aim for with our project?
Our multimedia project aims to challenge the audience by exposing them to
cryptic surrealistic images, and through recontextualization it will enable them to follow
the narrative’s structure by linking previously ambiguous symbols that affirms their thought
processes to feel the satisfaction of interacting with the narratives' meaning-making process.
Meet the Project Developers
