The Tent

When a woman wakes up one morning to find a mysterious tent has appeared in her front yard, she’s not sure what to do about it… THE TENT is an Augmented Reality tabletop narrative and a glimpse of the future of spatial entertainment. A modern fairy tale set in Los Angeles, “The Tent” looks at the fraught relationship between the housed and the unhoused and the interpersonal social dynamics of activism with humor and heart. Built for iPadPro, it allows the audience to explore a miniature world from any perspective, creating a movie that you can walk around in. It’s a drama, a satire, a petite bourgeoise fever dream and a fable for society.

Rory Mitchell
Rory Mitchell is an XR Director and Producer and founder of MERCANTILE, a Spatial Studio. His XR work has premiered at SXSW and Cannes, and he’s produced branded XR work for Fortune 500 companies including Disney, General Mills and others. His current Augmented Reality narrative, THE TENT, a dark fairy tale about the unhoused crisis in Los Angeles, premiered at SXSW in March 2024 and has toured the world, being translated into French and Korean. His 360° documentary DIVERSE & SUBVERSIVE: THE ANTI-GENTRIFICATION OF BOYLE HEIGHTS (2020) was the result of 3 years of filming with the radical activists of Boyle Heights as they protested art galleries and coffeeshops using black-bloc style tactics. THE VISIGOTHS (2017) a live-action 360° film was an intimate romantic drama that put the viewer feet away from a young couple falling in, and out, of love. A native Angeleno, he lives in Silver Lake with his wife and young daughter.