The loop
Visitors are placed inside a recurring cycle of exit, wait, re-enter, repeat.
Social VR documentary experience · VRChat · 2026
VISARUN
People come here to briefly leave a country so their stay can continue.
Inspired by a real visa-run waiting zone between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, VISARUN reconstructs an abandoned Yugoslav K67 kiosk as a multi-user spatial documentary about migration, waiting, bureaucracy, and temporary belonging.
The space between stamps
A border ritual, rebuilt as a place to wait together.
Rather than depicting migration through departure or arrival, VISARUN focuses on the interval between them. Visitors enter an island-like digital reconstruction where they receive a dated virtual passport stamp, explore documentary traces, and spend time near a kiosk that has become a temporary shelter for people who must keep moving in order to remain where they live.
The project began with Georgy Molodtsov's own encounters with visa-run culture in Serbia after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It continues as an evolving documentary environment, gradually expanded with stories from real people who have been forced into repeated cycles of exit, waiting, and return.
Personal origin
The project began during my own visa run.
VISARUN is not an abstract border metaphor. It grew out of repeated encounters with this waiting zone, where families, artists, IT workers, students, and strangers briefly leave Serbia so their stay can continue.
Standing there with my family, I understood the kiosk as a place of administrative survival: not a home, but a temporary shelter shared by people whose lives had been pushed into 30-day cycles.
The poem on the kiosk
The line that made the project unavoidable.
Artist and poet Ivan Neudalimo left a poem on the wall of the real kiosk. Its strange mixture of tenderness, exhaustion, humor, and stuckness became the emotional trigger for VISARUN.
Ivan Neudalimo
The poem does not explain the border. It speaks from inside the absurd routine: the compressed month, the half-joke of tourism, the instruction to smoke and return. VISARUN keeps that tone at the center of the experience.
Здравствуйте, любитель туризма!
Скомканный месяц, правда?
Кажется, мы пока невозвратны.
Ладно, ну раз уж явился,
Кури и иди обратно
Trailer
A documentary island inside VRChat.
The trailer shows the VRChat world built from photorealistic scans of the real kiosk, expanded with changing light, weather, water, and a fictional island landscape.
VISARUN · project trailer
Historical context
The country disappeared. The kiosk remained.
The real site is a narrow waiting area at Sremska Raca, where people can wait long enough for an exit from Serbia to be registered before returning.
The K67 kiosk was designed in 1966 by Slovenian architect Sasa J. Machtig for socialist Yugoslavia as a modular public structure for cafes, kiosks, and everyday services. Decades later, an abandoned unit stands between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, used by visa runners as a small shelter from rain, smoke, exhaust, and administrative uncertainty.
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many Russian-speaking migrants have relied on legal loopholes that allow a limited stay followed by exit and re-entry. In Serbia, without residency, that cycle can mean leaving every 30 days. VISARUN turns this bureaucratic rhythm into spatial time.
The waiting zone
The real wait is often brief, but its meaning stretches across months or years.
The shelter
A socialist-era public object becomes a fragile gathering point for displaced lives.
Inside the world
Weather, waiting, return.
Three photorealistic scans of the kiosk, day, evening, and storm, are placed inside a fictional island landscape where time and atmosphere shift around the visitor.
Real stories
The kiosk is already a shared archive.
Before VISARUN became a VRChat world, the poem had already started circulating through the lives of people who returned to this place every month.
ivan_neudalimo · May 26, 2024
You can apply for a residence permit, or you can visit the kitty every month on a visa run. Serbia, Sremska Raca, border control. #neudalimoOpen original post
Olga
This photo from the place became something symbolic for me, a kind of new point of reference. Once a month we walk there to read it again. And every time the inscription brings a new emotion, like an echo of everything that has built up over the month.
Whoever you are, thank you ❤️ #neudalimo
Open Instagram post
First visa run in my life. It had to be captured and left here. #neudalimo
Open Instagram post
A little poetry, #neudalimo, on the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The legendary abandoned burger stand, the Booth of Pilgrimage.
Open Instagram post First cycle
Today I went on my first visa run.
Cold. A little sad.
But it seems we are still not returnable.
Platform and capture
Documentary scanning inside a social VR platform.
VISARUN combines the accessibility of VRChat with the fragile texture of a real site captured through Gaussian Splatting.
VRChat
The work is hosted as a multi-user PCVR world, allowing visitors from different countries to enter the same documentary environment simultaneously, talk, wait, and move through the island together.
Gaussian Splatting
The kiosk was scanned from the real location using iPhone 14 Pro material and processed through Gaussian Splatting tools, preserving weathered surfaces, stickers, rust, and the poem as photographic spatial evidence.
Living archive
The project is designed to keep changing. New documentary stories, traces, and contextual materials can be added as people share their own experience of visa runs and temporary migration.
Authors
Documentary practice, poetic intervention, social VR.
Georgy Molodtsov
Filmmaker, producer, curator, and creative technologist working across documentary cinema, immersive media, and spatial computing. Founder of Film XR, with projects and programmes presented at Venice Immersive, SXSW, Cannes XR, NewImages, Raindance Immersive, and other international platforms.
Ivan Neudalimo
Ivan Pezikov, working as #neudalimo, is a poet and artist who writes his own poems into public space as graffiti. He studied Applied Computer Science at the Geodetic Faculty of MIIGAiK, Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography, and has taken part in poetry readings, competitions, the Homecoming immersive art exhibition in Yerevan, and the Film Text Laboratory at Kinoproba Film Festival.
Mikun Hatsune
VRChat developer for the world implementation, helping translate the scanned documentary site and island environment into a live multiplayer experience.
VISARUN access
Enter the island between two stamps.
VISARUN can be experienced online through VRChat or presented as an on-site installation with PC-connected VR headsets and a projected desktop view.