Blur (XR Experience)
PHI Center (Montreal) / February 18 - March 29, 2026
PHI Center (Montreal) / February 18 - March 29, 2026
"unlike anything I've seen"
Charles Fink (Forbes)
"kaleidoscopic... dizzyingly strange and thrilling"
Luke Buckmaster (The VR Critic)
Scientists have upended our sense of the natural order, shifting terms like “de-extinction” and “resurrection biology” from the realm of Hollywood action films into the vernacular of everyday life. In 1996, scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland ignited a firestorm of controversy when they cloned a female Finn-Dorset sheep using adult somatic cells. Images of the sheep, Dolly, quickly spread around the world, stirring concerns about the seemingly inevitable shift to cloning humans. People were faced with the troubling question of reconsidering their foundational understanding of identity and selfhood. Blur is a poetic exploration of these increasingly liminal boundaries between the past and the future, the living and the dead.
Blur is co-directed by Craig Quintero and Phoebe Greenberg and is an international co-production with Riverbed Theatre, PHI Studio, and Onassis. It has been staged the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Taiwan National Theatre, and National Taichung Theatre.
https://phi.ca/en/studio/works/blur/
Charles Fink (Forbes)
"kaleidoscopic... dizzyingly strange and thrilling"
Luke Buckmaster (The VR Critic)
Scientists have upended our sense of the natural order, shifting terms like “de-extinction” and “resurrection biology” from the realm of Hollywood action films into the vernacular of everyday life. In 1996, scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland ignited a firestorm of controversy when they cloned a female Finn-Dorset sheep using adult somatic cells. Images of the sheep, Dolly, quickly spread around the world, stirring concerns about the seemingly inevitable shift to cloning humans. People were faced with the troubling question of reconsidering their foundational understanding of identity and selfhood. Blur is a poetic exploration of these increasingly liminal boundaries between the past and the future, the living and the dead.
Blur is co-directed by Craig Quintero and Phoebe Greenberg and is an international co-production with Riverbed Theatre, PHI Studio, and Onassis. It has been staged the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Taiwan National Theatre, and National Taichung Theatre.
https://phi.ca/en/studio/works/blur/