Virtual reality project fills in the gaps of a grandfather's harrowing internment story
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About half way through Randall Okita’s The Book of Distance, the viewer is suddenly immersed in a blizzard. A barbwire fence springs up in front. Yonezo — a bewildered farmer, new Canadian and Okita’s grandfather — stands behind it in a snowy internment camp in 1940s British Columbia. His grandson, or least a virtual avatar […]