In a ruined virtual museum, a group of avatars – a security frog, a prowling velociraptor, a romantic penguin and some Kawaii TikTokers – offer a witty commentary on its works. Normal Planet marks the return of the filmmakers behind Knit's Island (VdR 2023), with a brilliant essay on the pantheonisation of art and the consumption of culture.

Somewhere on the internet is a land where communities pretend to live out a survivalist fiction. The avatars of the directors of Knit’s Island spent 963 hours there, creating a fascinating film resulting from their encounter with these communities. The “players” reveal their fears and fantasies, in an at times unsettling blurring of the real and the virtual.