Half Open Half Pose

Bob pretends everything is fine. He functions, but remains trapped in passivity, staring out the window. As strange changes distort his apartment, the shrinking space reflects his inner crisis. Escaping into dreamlike visions, Bob avoids confronting the forces controlling him from within: the Inner Army Creatures (IAC), led by an Inner Dictator. His only guide is the Bat, a mysterious figure appearing at the window with moments of wisdom and clarity. As construction machines begin building outside, Bob retreats further into self-deception, covering the view with a paper drawing of the landscape to preserve the illusion of freedom. But the IAC eventually overwhelm him. In despair, he tears the drawing away, and the Bat rescues him, carrying him to a place where he relives fragments of his life, failures, desires, and loneliness. In the final scene, Bob floats through space, folds the drawing into a paper airplane, and lets it drift away before turning back toward Earth — and himself.

Director’s statement
"From my bedroom window – illegally cut into a firewall by my uncle in the early 1990s – I used to see an abandoned low building. One day it was suddenly demolished. Just before that, I asked the chief architect how big the new building would be. He replied, “If that tiny window up there is yours, we’ll brick it up.” Since construction began, I’ve been counting the days I still have a room with a view.
Beyond this personal experience, the film was inspired by two inner processes: a feeling of helplessness that pulls me into an anxious, vortex-like state, whether caused by too many possibilities, past traumas, limitations, or self-sabotage, and the internal voices that accompany it, whose pessimistic, self-degrading tone further narrows what feels possible.
My goal is to further explore the metaphorical layers of the feeling of confinement, stagnation and to visualize the parallels and tensions between our inner, imagined, spiritual spaces and our concrete physical spaces."