Seven minutes of animated purgatory that'll haunt your existential dread for days.
Confined to an endlessly burning waiting room, a dying sedentary woman experiences herself blurring in and out of her body. In her last remaining fragments she tries to make amends with her spirit before her remaining fragments either decay or create.
Sound
Ambient score that breathes with the protagonist's dissolution.
Direction
Jimenez's single-handed vision of limbo as personal purgatory.
Director
Charlie Jimenez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jimenez coined 'Candle' as a tone poem after experimental animator Stan Brakhage, prioritizing emotional texture over narrative clarity.
The entire film was hand-animated using pixilation of the director's own body over 14 months, making the protagonist's dissolution literally self-portraiture.
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