Once A Glacier AR

Link to demo video (YouTube or Vimeo).

Include a link to your public, playable 8th Wall experience. https://www.8thwall.com/kirillklochkov/onceaglacier02

How many VPS-activated locations does your project utilize? 

Just one - 8 Rue Aristide Briand et de la Paix, 42000 Saint-Étienne, France!!

What was the inspiration for your project? (Optional) 

https://www.jiabaoli.org/once-a-glacier

Once a Glacier tells the story of a relationship between a girl and a glacier. As the girl grows older, the existence of the ice is threatened, and the viewer is taken on a journey through her seemingly futile efforts to protect what was once an entire glacier. The story is inspired by Jiabao Li’s own experience from two years she lived in Alaska, where she was the young girl protecting a piece of ice in the freezer. In Inupiaq tradition, a tribe of indigenous people from northwestern Alaska, glaciers carry memories from the past and communicate them in song. The climate crisis has become a terrifying reality that includes seeing the end of glaciers—the end of these sung histories—happen before our eyes. Once a Glacier shows a gesture of nurturing, and whether the girl’s efforts are successful, the work suggests a poignant level of grace and humility for moving forward into the future.