Whale of Rebirth
Chih Hao Shen
Taiwan / 2025 / Experimental, Animation / 5’20”I2600920
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After a meditative breath, the film slips into a dreamlike mirrored dimension — Familiar yet foreign spaces unfold like a trans-cultural spiritual map: the whispering banks of the River Styx, the echo at the end of the Yellow Springs, stairways of light resembling the Tree of Life, and shattered architectures evoking Dante’s Inferno or mythical Eastern realms of judgment and reflection. These visual symbols do not refer to religion, but to universal human experience — the tensions of love and suffering, attachment and release, the burden of desires, and the elusive possibility of “non-self” as a path to inner stillness. Told without dialogue or linear storytelling, the film becomes a quiet visual parable. A reverse waterfall, mirrored space, whales suspended like constellations — each image a projection of the self, and a meditation on the question: Who am I — and what remains, if I let go of “me”?
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