Immersive entertainment company Swamp Motel today announce The Alter. This brand-new, interactive short film will be unleashed globally and for free for a limited time only from Thursday 10 March – Thursday 5 May. 

The Alter is an exciting new digital venture which follows Swamp Motel’s thrilling live experience The Drop, which just ended its debut season in London, and the Isklander trilogy, their hugely successful online game series, which demonstrated new digital possibilities in immersive entertainment, first developed as a creative response to the pandemic. Swamp Motel continue to develop and evolve these digital possibilities, leading them to create their first short film, The Alter, part of The Lowry’s LIVE NOW digital commissioning programme.  

Swamp Motel are once again employing interactive technologies to share this story, as dual narratives run concurrently – the night before and the morning after. Matched exactly, shot for shot, audiences will click to switch between morning and night, discovering the mystery as they go along. At night, you find yourself watching four friends drinking in a dining room, click to morning and see only the detritus of the party. Spend too long in one story, and you might miss a crucial moment. It’s up to you to choose the timeline you want to follow and piece together the narrative of a weekend where everything changes. 

Hosted on Swamp Motel’s website, audiences will be able to watch and interact with this short film whenever – and as many times as – they choose, until Thursday 5 May.