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(Short Film: 20 min)
What if what we have constructed as reality, is just a framework for our existence?

Unknown is an experimental short film, that takes the viewer on a vivid and destabilizing journey through perception, time, space, and the illusion of certainty. all the way to the void of a black hole.
Through the powerful metaphor of the black hole, a cosmic phenomenon where time and space collapse.
Unknown challenges the very foundations of what we accept as real. This immersive film alternates sweeping temporal scenes of everyday life, with surreal domains of disintegration and distortion.
By zooming into the microscopic and metaphysical fragments of cells, numbers, nature, and memory, Unknown reveals that even our most tangible building blocks can be magnified illusions, upending our assumptions. This deliberate interplay creates a rhythmic tension that pushes the viewer toward a central question.
“What if the reality we perceive is merely a constructed frame within an abyss of hidden worlds and dreams?
As the camera shifts from cosmic vistas into the eye of a shifting protagonist, every return to reality unfolds in a different time and space. suggesting that existence itself is unstable, glitching, or multilayered. In just 20 minutes of immersive sound and striking visuals, the film dissolves any sense of certainty.
Rather than provide answers, Unknown opens a portal of doubt, inviting audiences to confront their constructed beliefs and step momentarily outside the illusion they call real.
CONCEPT—Jay Chia & Aeileen Azad
DIRECTOR, PERFORMER & Editor—Jay Chia
ARTISTIC GUIDANCE—Quirine Racké & Helena Muskens
Production & CREATIVE GUIDANCE—Illy Azad
CINEMATOGRAPHY—Arya Jalili
VISUALS IN COLLABORATION WITH—Jurre Pöpping
SOUND MIX & MASTER—MARTIN Verheesen

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