Special eventWednesday 6 May 2026
4:30pm – 6:00pm
360° VR Documentary: Eight Million Gods
13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent's Park), London NW1 4QP
Organised by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
Fully bookedNiall Hill, Lecturer in Immersive Factual Storytelling at UCL, will introduce Eight Million Gods, a new 360° virtual reality documentary, which attendees will have a chance to view. This immersive film is an encounter with people, places, and spirits of Shinto, introducing them to English-speaking audiences unfamiliar with the tradition, and tracing them into contemporary culture. The project forms the basis of a new inquiry into sacred experience in immersive media.
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About the contributor
Niall Hill
Niall is an immersive artist and lecturer in Immersive Factual Storytelling at UCL. He has an MSci in Neuroscience and spent three years at the BBC producing virtual reality (VR) works, including Doctor Who: The Runaway. His commissioned projects include Hereafter, a VR documentary installation exploring afterlife beliefs, and Supercel, a projection-based interactive story set in a ruined Catalan church. His practice-based research explores how immersive experiences might draw on ritual, symbolism, and depth psychology to create meaningful and transformative encounters.