What happens when your brain forgets the sun exists? This 26-minute hallucination knows.
This audio-visual tone poem uses the language of filmmaking to offer a first-hand evocation of the turbulent psychological effects one can experience due to prolonged lack of sunlight.
Cinematography
Light deprivation as actual visual grammar—brutal and beautiful
Sound
Audio design that mimics tinnitus and sleep-deprived hallucinations
Direction
Tyler Quinn's structuralist approach weaponizes boredom into dread
Director
Tyler Quinn
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a micro-wave of 'COVID insomnia films' where filmmakers turned their own disrupted circadian rhythms into formal experiments.
The structural film label connects Quinn to 1960s avant-garde legends like Michael Snow, but with contemporary mental health framing.
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