Vision
2023 · 7m · Japan
Directed by Çağıl Harmandar
Genres: animation, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, mythic, surreal
Eyes as magical spheres of dreams and memory, where inner and outer visions overlap to birth new worlds.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Everyone's going to call this dreamy and profound, but Harmandar's actually doing something weirder—treating the eye as a literal portal that collapses dream logic and waking perception so thoroughly you can't tell which is which, and it shouldn't work but it does.
A formally rigorous meditation on vision itself, where the animation technique becomes inseparable from the philosophical argument; Harmandar positions this work within a lineage of experimental cinema that uses optical abstraction to probe consciousness, executed with the kind of considered precision that rewards close viewing.
The decision to animate the eye's interior as a space rather than a symbol—to make the membrane between inner and outer worlds literally permeable through color and form—is the hinge that transforms a visual concept into something that genuinely moves.
Festivals
- Hiroshima Animation Season 2024, Pan-Pacific & Asia Youth Competition selection