Three states of the same place
The location was scanned during the author's visa runs across different seasons and conditions.
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 project
A waiting zone between departure and return.
VISARUN is a multi-user immersive experience inspired by a real place between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina: an abandoned K67 kiosk standing in the narrow space between two border checkpoints.
Once designed for everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia, the kiosk now shelters people taking part in a recurring migration ritual known as a visa run. Every month they briefly leave a country in order to remain in it. They wait, smoke, drink coffee, exchange information, and return to the lives they have built elsewhere.
Built from photorealistic Gaussian Splatting captures and expanded into a fictional island landscape, VISARUN combines documentary observation with poetic reconstruction. Visitors encounter changing weather, traces left by previous travellers, and a poem written on the kiosk wall by artist Ivan Neudalimo. Rather than depicting migration through departure or arrival, VISARUN focuses on the space in between.
Trailer
A documentary island inside VRChat.
A first look at the scanned kiosk, changing weather, water, avatars, and the island built around a real visa-run waiting zone.
Personal origin
The project began between two stamps.
VISARUN grew out of the author's own repeated visits to this waiting zone, where families, artists, IT workers, students, and strangers briefly leave Serbia so their stay can continue.
The kiosk became a place of administrative survival: not a home, but a temporary shelter shared by people whose lives had been pushed into recurring exit-and-return cycles.
The poem on the kiosk
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
Experience
Online world, room-scale installation, projected island.
VISARUN can be entered online through VRChat or presented as an immersive exhibition with PC-connected VR headsets, a projected desktop view, spatial sound, and a panoramic room-scale landscape from the virtual world.
At the entrance and exit, visitors can receive a dated stamp marking the visit and the completion of their own symbolic visa run.
VRChatmulti-user PCVR world
CaptureGaussian Splatting scans from iPhone 14 Pro material
ProductionUnity, Blender, VRChat SDK, spatial audio
360 Video recording of the VISARUN Island
Drag the image with your mouse to look around.
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, market stalls, newsstands, and everyday services.
The VISARUN kiosk is a damaged survivor of that system: an abandoned unit standing between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, now used by visa runners as shelter from rain, smoke, exhaust, and administrative uncertainty.
For migrants without residency, the legal rhythm can mean leaving every 30 days and returning after a brief border crossing. VISARUN turns that bureaucratic loop 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.
Gallery
The VRChat world holds the same scanned kiosk across different states of weather, light, distance, and waiting.
Living archive
The kiosk is already a shared archive.
The poem began circulating before VISARUN became a VRChat world. People returned to the wall, photographed it, thanked the unknown author, and marked their own visa-run cycles.
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 place became symbolic for me, a new point of reference. Once a month we walk there to read it again, and every time the inscription echoes what has accumulated over the month.
Whoever you are, thank you ❤️ #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 postFirst visa run
First visa run in my life. It had to be captured and left here. #neudalimo
Open Instagram postFirst cycle
Today I went on my first visa run.
Cold. A little sad.
But it seems we are still not returnable.
Team
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, and Raindance Immersive.
Ivan Neudalimo
Ivan Pezikov, working as #neudalimo, is a poet and artist who writes his own poems into public space as graffiti. His practice connects poetry readings, public interventions, the Homecoming immersive art exhibition in Yerevan, and the Film Text Laboratory at Kinoproba Film Festival.
Mikun Hatsune
VRChat World Developer. VRChat RU Localization Lead-Translator and Proofreader, professional VRChat avatar maker, Senior Node.js Developer, Junior C#.
Gauss implementation, translation of scanned documentary locations into an interactive multiplayer world, composition, image and audio visualization, technical execution.
Contact
Enter the island between two stamps.
Experience VISARUN online, book the immersive installation format, or contact Film XR for festival and exhibition presentations.