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Ajyal Short Film Programme 1: Hidden Layers
A passenger on a bus reclines their seat too far. This small action shifts the balance of the shared space, sending everyone on board in an unexpected direction.
A passenger on a bus reclines their seat too far. The seatback becomes a wall between rooms, then between villages, and finally between countries. More and more people gather on both sides, forming ever-larger groups that push against one another. Under the pressure, the space around them expands and contracts. Seun Yee made it alone, in paper cut-out and hand-drawn 2D, without a word of dialogue. A wall is shelter or threat depending on how close it presses.

Credits

Director
Seun Yee
Screenwriter
Seun Yee
Producer
Seun Yee
Cinematographer
Seun Yee
Editor
Seun Yee
Music
Jan Šikl

About the Director

Seun Lee
Seun Yee is an animation filmmaker whose practice moves between the abstract and the figurative, exploring visual storytelling through hand-crafted 2D techniques. She graduated from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 2016 and is currently based in Korea. ‘Boundaries’ has won the Short Film Award of the German Film Critics Association at Filmfest Dresden, Best Animated Short