Your Final Meditation

Your Final Meditation

Isolated in her warehouse apartment in an escalating state of anxiety, a young woman plays a virtual reality guided meditation game. Corey Hughes directs “Your Final Meditation,” an immersive featurette embarking into an open world of evolving fantasy environments. Powered by “Transcend Corporations,” the game utilizes an A.I. algorithm to adapt its gameplay to its user’s emotions. Exhaling and inhaling determines in-game movements and memories from the past generate seeds for new worlds. The gameplay—twelve levels of various biomes and emotionally challenging tasks—begins innocently but ramps up to vivid extremes as it pushes its players toward their ultimate goal: transcendence. Wearing her headset, Jodiiie engages with everything from stone tablets, knights wearing chain mail, and mutations into the insect-form. For brief moments, she removes the goggles and tries to tune into the real world. She sends out an invite for a backyard bonfire but as the day continues, it doesn’t seem like anyone is planning to come. The reality of loneliness weighs heavier, and the game increasingly envelopes Jodiiie into its world. Observed mostly through the game’s first person POV, we spend most of the film as if we were playing alongside Jodiiie herself, somehow also reaching an uncanny state of calm. We've featured Hughes several times over the years, dating back to 2016 with his Carnival Cruise set, "Ouchiemongo". -JM. Director: Corey Hughes Cast: Hanna Olivegren.

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Your Final Meditation
  • Your Final Meditation

    Isolated in her warehouse apartment in an escalating state of anxiety, a young woman plays a virtual reality guided meditation game. Corey Hughes directs “Your Final Meditation,” an immersive featurette embarking into an open world of evolving fantasy environments. Powered by “Transcend Corporati...

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  • Trailer | Your Final Meditation

  • MyToeShoes.Com

    A Florida man records an unboxing video for his YouTube channel. Directed by Corey Hughes.

  • Ouchiemongo

    A slapstick comedy in super slow motion. An unnamed tourist with a leg injury searches for physical and spiritual healing on a week long Carnival cruise vacation from Baltimore to the Bahamas. Floating between narrative, documentary, and experimental tendencies the film creates an atmosphere simi...

  • My Expanded View

    A YouTube Yoga tutorial. A collapsed body. “My Expanded View,” the latest experimental oddity from NoBudge favorite Corey Hughes presents a peaceful instructional video that derails into a meta deconstruction on digital realms and cultural trends. | Directed by Corey Hughes.

  • Armageddon 2

    The internet in Cuba is very slow. Movies, television, and information are exchanged through a black market system known as “el paquete semanal.” In “Armageddon 2,” director Corey Hughes combines documentary, experimental and narrative elements as he follows one young man involved in the makeshif...

  • Caesars Palace

    A middle aged woman travels to Caesars Palace on a business trip following the unexpected death of her husband. Her disembodied voice floats between an increasingly messy hotel room and the crowded Las Vegas strip. | Directed by Corey Hughes.