Twins

2024 · 4m

Directed by Asher Borison

Genres: animation, drama, fantasy

Tones: contemplative, surreal

Two twins fight each other throughout their lives -- past and future ones too.

Picked by Zoe

The scouts

The recursive twin-fight premise *should* be gimmicky, but Borison refuses to let it be—there's something genuinely unsettling about collapsing timeline and identity into the same recurring violence, which is exactly the kind of "wait, what?" that actually earns its weirdness.

Felix

A formally considered meditation on duality and temporal structure; the animation's restraint and the editing's insistence on cyclical return place this squarely in a lineage of philosophical animation that treats form as argument.

Margot

The choice to animate the twins' conflict across past and future simultaneously—layering versions of the same fight rather than sequencing them—is the single decision that transforms a premise into something that *feels* like lived simultaneity rather than plot.

Zoe