Crow: A short horror-style 360° film highlighting sexual harassment towards women

Crow employs immersive 360° XR filmmaking technology, coined as ‘the ultimate empathy machine’ (Milk, 2015), to place the audience inside in the experience of a female student as she walks home from university through the city. Filmed entirely from the perspective of the female protagonist, with the 360° camera doubling as a ‘prop’ within the filmic text by suggesting it is the protagonist’s mobile phone that she uses as a tool to record, and to intervene, in what she sees and experiences as she walks through the city. It features real-world examples of sexual harassment: being encroached upon by an unknown male; being flashed; witnessing an inebriated young woman being ‘helped’ by two males; being jeered at and cat-called. Alongside these hyper-realist elements, the film combines elements of the fantastical in its denouement, where it is suggested that the protagonist has transformed into a crow to protect herself from an intruder in her home.