Find out more about the CPH:LAB projects of 2023/2024 and 2024/2025.
2024-2025 CPH:LAB Projects
A Sanctuary of Stuff
Characters, vehicles, furniture. Hats, food, street trash cans. Rusty electrical boxes. Guns. A lot of guns. Something finally catches your eye. A digestive system. You don't know it yet, but it'll become the centerpiece of your next "I'll for real finish this one" project.
Becoming Lucien
A 7-year-old child finds themselves trapped in a void, struggling with an identity that feels wrong. Their future self, twenty years ahead, reaches out through the darkness, guiding them toward understanding and promising a future of transformation—a new name, body, and voice. This is the story of how I became Lucien.
Lucien Pin & Alex Haugmard / Thibault Elie / France
BrainRot Revolution
BrainRot Revolution is an immersive game for large screens where dancing leads to the destruction of the Internet.
Brett Gaylor / Mike Wozniewski / Canada
Cripping Up
Cripping Up is an interactive VR experience that invites the audience to embody Meg, a wheelchair user, to make a simple journey. They are confronted with the ableist barriers that surround Meg everyday as she navigates her life.
Amy Crighton / Meg Fozzard / United Kingdom
Futuristic Pagan: Bridal Homecoming
Futuristic Pagan: Bridal Homecoming immerses audiences in a traditional Zezuru wedding ceremony, where timeless Zimbabwean rituals of love and family union unfold through interactive VR. The experience packages traditional narratives using immersive technologies to celebrate Zimbabwean identity and preserve cultural heritage.
Sabina Mutsvati / Chipo Mapondera / United Kingdom & Zimbabwe
Not so far away places
Based on 400+ hours of footage by activist Anya Karetnikova, this interactive documentary experience immerses participants in her work within Russian prisons, exploring resistance within a totalitarian environment, moral dilemmas of trying to change the system from within, and the banality of evil through scripted nonfiction scenarios
Scratching the Surface
An artist and single mother invites AI into her studio, sparking a clash between analog craft and machine intelligence. As she struggles to stay relevant in a rapidly changing world, she embarks on a deep exploration of transhuman creativity, asking if art can remain human when machines learn to create.
Wiktor Filip Gacparski & Line Hoven / Alexander Mettin & Felix Patzke / Germany
The Place Beyond
What does your soul really look like? The Place Beyond is a collective AI-Powered interactive experience for museums/VR. With friends or strangers, experience synthetic “death” with an AI guide, who “transforms” your soul into a visually stunning escape-room like Purgatory, where you solve riddles visualizing your deepest conflicts... with a twist!
TUNER
Tuner is a documentary-based AR experience in which you have a tailor-made alien encounter in your own living room inspired by your interaction & surrounding.
Anne Jeppesen / Omid Zarei / Denmark, United States & France