Echoes Beneath

XUNKU WORK

Panoramic Immersive Cinema · 2022—2026

Echoes Beneath digital grotto image

PANORAMIC IMMERSIVE CINEMA

A descent into the deep earth,
through four grotto worlds of civilization.

Echoes Beneath takes grotto sculpture as its central field, connecting digital capture, three-dimensional reconstruction, procedural generation, spatial sound and cinematic narrative. It does not simply reproduce a heritage site; it builds an immersive passage through destruction, dispersal, image-making and cultural migration.

01

栖霞山火

A Northern Zhou grotto world of fire, artisans and stone. Its narrative is an artistic interpretation, not a historical reconstruction.

02

莫高窟尘劫

A late-Qing grotto world of manuscripts, guardianship and dispersal, preserving the complexity of historical judgement.

03

龙门曌相

The anonymous hands behind monumental sculpture return image-making to bodies, labour and choice.

04

飞来峰溯源

Image migration and local cultural landscape ask how a mountain becomes a structure of collective imagination.

05

Panoramic Narrative

Spatial composition, sound, motion and light guide attention, shifting spectatorship from viewing an image to entering a world.

06

Version System

Flat-screen, 180° and 360° forms are adapted for specific venues; resolution, frame rate and chapter structure remain tied to each master.

STATUS / RECORD

Principal version completed; version lineage under review.

2025.11 Official selection / exhibition, the 4th Golden Rooster XR Festival

2026.04 Possible Worlds Archive: 2026 International Art & Technology Exhibition, Beijing National Stadium; a key basis for the current four-part content master

Version note The final Beijing National Stadium presentation is the current content master; other forms remain historical or venue-adapted versions

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