studio wzzzt plays and produces in the field immersive arts.

Nienke Huitenga Broeren is an immersive director and producer. Her designs stem from a curiosity for how technology sharpens our understanding of being human. In 2026 her latest VR work AMSTERDAM 1652 has been selected in competition in the Venice Immersive section of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival. Her work ranges from experimental, to non-fiction and documentary driven works. A pivotal moment in her carreer as a director was the VR documentary LACUNA about memory and identity, which premieed in the immersive competition at the Cannes Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam 2025.

In the past years she worked on several genre pushing digital works like a generative audio experience titled DRIFT (2024) that speculates about post-climate crisis Netherlands, a performative hybrid lecture OFF THE RECORD (2023) and debuted with the non-fiction VR story ROZSYPNE (2019) at IDFA DocLab. She was nominated for the Best Digital Storytelling award 2026 by the Dutch Directors Guild.

Her practice is influenced by an interdisciplinary perspective on mediated experiences: technology is never the starting point in her work, yet an important tool for addressing societal, cultural and personal experiences. Operating from Utrecht, she heads production house Studio ZZZAP where she blends an XR practice with digital art and experiential storytelling.

Photo credit: Robin Alysha Clemens