The Book of Distance – a virtual pilgrimage about immigration

With a growing list of awards received, The Book of Distance blends techniques from mechanical sculpture, film, and stage to redefine personal storytelling in virtual reality. In 1935, Yonezo Okita left his home in Hiroshima, Japan, and began a new life in Canada. Then war and state-sanctioned racism changed everything—he became the enemy. Three generations later, his grandson, artist Randall Okita, leads us on an interactive virtual pilgrimage through an emotional geography of immigration and family to recover what was lost.