Bloodless by Korean director Gina Kim is one of the finest examples of 360 degree films and won the best virtual reality story award at the 74th Venice International Film Festival, last year.

The movie is based on a real-life murder case in 1992. An American soldier killed a Korean bar worker in one of the most horrific murder cases involving U.S. soldiers in Korean history. Her tortured body was discovered lying naked, soaked in blood.

Filmmaker Gina Kim wanted to make the movie about the true story for a long time, but  she struggled with how to do without exploiting the case, according to Yonhap News. Then, in a partnership of storytelling and technology, Kim finally brought the 1992 murder to life in “Bloodless,” a 12-minute film. The director said virtual reality provides new ways to depict tragedies without making them into a spectacle.

“It allows you to feel the pain of others as if your own,” Kim said in a recent interview with The Associated Press: “VR is not cinema. It’s something else.”