Inspired by her acclaimed Rolling Stone article, If Tiles Couls Speak, They Would Scream, and the award-winning VR experience Stay Alive My Son. Darkness to Light: When Technology Heals Generations is a visceral and emotive documentary by filmmaker and technologist Victoria Bousis where virtual reality transforms memory into a living experience to answer the question: Can technology help us heal what has never been shared? At the heart of the film: a 14-year-old Cambodian girl, representing a generation. Through virtual reality, she enters the story of Yathay Pin, a father who survived the Khmer Rouge. As she walks in his footsteps-his mental prison, his impossible choice, his atonement-generations collide an inherited silence and heal. Narrated by Victoria Bousis as a personal tribute, Darkness to Light weaves intimate vérité, emotional testimony, archival footage, behind-the-scenes glimpse, and immersive encounters into a lyrical meditation on memory, technology, and the power of youth to reclaim the past in a digital age. It is a meditation on generational trauma, technological empathy, and cultural resurrection. This is history lived, reclaimed, and reawakened, preserving truth and through remembrance, returned to light.
Documentary: Darkness to Light
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Victoria BousisMedia Director and TechnologistVictoria Bousis is an award-winning cross-media director and technologist working at the intersection of immersive storytelling, artificial intelligence, and social impact.
A member of the Television Academy’s Emerging Technology Group and the Producers Guild of America, she is recognized as a pioneer in XR, spatial computing, digital humans, and AI. Her work explores how emerging technology can serve humanity, and drive real-world change.
Screening in Davos 2026 and based on her Rolling Stone article, “If Tiles Could Speak, They Would Scream,” her recent Oscar-qualified short documentary, Darkness to Light: When Technology Heals Generations continues this mission, asking whether technology can help heal what history has silenced. It will be screening at the forum.
A former prosecutor for the Office of the Attorney General, Victoria sought justice in the courtroom before transitioning into film and technology, founding UME Studios a creative and technology studio based in Athens & Los Angeles.
Her groundbreaking virtual reality experience, Stay Alive My Son, premiered at the Venice, Cannes, Thessaloniki and 25+ Film Festival and won the PGA Innovation Award. Victoria partnered with the United Nations – UNHCR – to humanize refugee experiences and advance global dialogue for family reunification and human dignity, earning Victoria the United Nations Humanitarian Award from the Order of Royal Society of St. George by patron King Charles III in 2025.
A contributor to Rolling Stone’s Culture Council and on BBC/TalkTV, she covers technology and AI.
She holds a Master’s in Media, Technology, and Innovation from MIT and a Juris Doctorate in International and Human Rights Law.