LIMBO

Format: Interactive Installation

Duration: about 20 minutes

LIMBO is a multisensory installation that invites us to explore the fragile nature of memory. In collaboration with artificial intelligence, participants transform personal moments into audiovisual “echoes” – distorted yet deeply resonant reflections of their stories. These echoes can be shared and intertwined, forming a collective archive where individual experiences merge and overlap. Blurring the boundaries between technology and humanity, LIMBO invites us to question how memories shape our identities and how they connect us to one another. It is both an emotional and philosophical journey into what it means to be human — and how that meaning evolves within the information age.

More about LIMBO

The Team

Meet the graduates behind LIMBO!

Director

PASCAL SANTAELLA

Pascal Santaella is a digital media artist based in Germany. His body of work includes interactive installations and systems, motion designs and creative workshops. As a lecturer, he aims to make real-time tech accessible and approachable for everyone through playful learning.

Director

RAPHAEL TONN

Raphael Tonn is an experimental artist based in Germany. With his works recently shifting from the analogue to the digital and now finding the cross section in the world of 3D animation and interactive installations. His main interests lie in the microscopic world, human–machine failure and the search for intersubjective truths.

Producer

FREDERIK STAPF

Frederik Stapf is a German transmedia producer. With a background in communication design, he explores new forms of storytelling at the intersection of emerging technologies, with a focus on immersive formats

Sounddesign

LEON MAXIMILIAN BRÜCKNER

Leon Maximilian Brueckner is a composer and sound artist based in Ludwigsburg. He creates immersive music for film, games, theatre and installations, exploring new sonic textures. He studies Film Music at Filmakademie Baden‑Württemberg and co‑founded the collective “Samples unterm Sofa”.

Architecture

PHILOMENA SCHMIDT

Philomena Schmidt, born in 1998 in Coburg, Germany, studied interior design at Coburg University of Applied Sciences. During her bachelor’s thesis, she moved to Berlin to immerse herself in the architecture industry and gain creative insights, starting as an intern at Studio Aisslinger. After completing her studies, Philomena worked on various film projects. Her experience in the art department sparked a deep interest in storytelling through visual design, which led her to pursue a postgraduate degree in Pro- duction Design at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg to create projects that offer both refuge and reflection on everyday challenges.