On January 13, 2018, 1.4 million people across Hawaii received an SMS from the state’s Emergency Management Agency: BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT IMBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. In the minutes that followed, they were forced to confront existential questions that had been unthinkable just moments before: Where could they go for shelter? What would remain of their communities if they survived a nuclear blast? How could they explain to their children why we live in a world where such unimaginable destruction was possible? And how could their own Government continue to pursue nuclear policies that threaten the entire global population every day?

By the time FEMA managed to retract the incorrect warning message, it was too late to pretend that normality would resume. Their collective experience had laid bare the growing threat that nuclear weapons pose to the world. In the words of Kauai resident Cynthia Lazaroff, “Nothing happened, but everything changed.”

On the Morning You Wake is a virtual reality documentary that immerses the audience in the first-hand experience of citizens in Hawaii to make clear the fundamental injustice of a world where nuclear weapons exist. OTMYW uses innovative documentary storytelling and virtual production techniques to viscerally recreate the lived experiences of people who, for 38 minutes, had to react and make impossible decisions in the face of nuclear violence.

On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World) is available for free on Meta Quest 2 headsets via the direct App Link below.

 

If you do not have access to a Quest 2 headset On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World), you can request a screening event from Games for Change with the button below.

 

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