Experimental machinima, 2026
Germany, 13 minutes
A train arrives in a nondescript city. An unnamed character alights on the platform. Something urges us to move on – but I don’t want to. Walls begin flickering in and out of existence.
As a child I always wanted to know what happened behind a loading screen. Non-Player Character lingers in the quiet corners of a virtual world, observing its inhabitants as they loop, vanish, and emote with uncanny sincerity. Who do we really see when we look at one another?
Screened at the 10th Beijing International Short Film Festival.