Blind Vaysha

On Thursday morning I attended my second virtual reality event, VR 3: Scenario. One of the short
films I enjoyed at this event was called “Blind Vaysha” (2016; Director and writer; Theodore Ushev).
The film was based on an idea by the writer Georgi Gospodinov. The film told the story of a girl who
sees the past in her left eye and the future in the right, and is unable to see the present. The VR
headset was set up so that your left eye always sees the past and your right eye sees the future,
which although it made the film slightly hard to watch given your eyes were seeing different things,
it did make you feel like the character and made you empathise with her.

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It could be said that the film was similar in its style and story to the “Bosch VR” film, in that it shows
you three parts of a story, in this case the past, the present and the future. Just like “Bosch VR” I
particularly enjoyed this idea and I thought it made the film more interesting and unique. The past
was shown to a better place whereas the future is dark, scary and mysterious. This makes the girl an
interesting character as she can simultaneously see the positivity of the past and the pain and
torture of the future. This could be a reference to how people sometimes positively think about the
past while being pessimistic about the future.

Like with “Dead Horses” I thought this film could be a metaphor for how a lot of people are
pessimistic about the future in the current age. People are concerned about the environment,
pollution and animals going extinct, and people are also concerned about the threat of future wars
and terrorist attacks, especially with the threat of organisations like ISIS and questionable political
leaders. The fact the main character cannot see the present could be a reference to how sometimes

we are too focused on the past or the future to fully appreciate or understand what is happening to
us in the present day.

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