From miles away, you are hearing the news.
As you walk this cursed ground, visiting for the first time in many years, a messenger arrives.
Her eyes are bloodshot, her voice distorted, her breath stinking of dehydration.
And she tells you,
"The universe is waking up to itself,
prophets are receiving visions,
and God-defying towers formed in hedonistic abundance are toppling over."
There is an aura of pathetic surrender surrounding you.
She continues,
"Armies formed from eating scraps emerge ready for battle,
with powerful weapons fashioned from air through the effort of their sheer will,
realizing that the foe is not the great force it seemed."
Your eyes start to wander. You notice the veil,
Hanging in the distance.
The veil hangs from somewhere undetermined.
Nobody has ever questioned this veil,
so it has drooped for eons, never being disturbed.
But now, just when you have noticed it for all its confusing placement,
it falls.
The messenger beside you dissipates to sand.
The veil, once protecting a mysterious and dreadful implication,
pulled away reveals nothing but dirt and dust.
Swirls of nothing, swirling nothingly,
But--
Who is this stranger?
A figure emerges in the distance of the swirls.
As She turns toward you,
Her hair and Her eyes remind you of someone you lost long ago.
The imprint of Her face burned into your retinas,
Her breath,
from which you were formed,
Gives the reason you walk this cursed ground.
Take Off The Blindfold, Adjust Your Eyes, Look In The Mirror, See The Face Of Your Mother is a new feature film. It is the fourth installment of “The Blindfold” series.
You can watch it on Patreon, and on Gumroad.
Get the whole Blindfold series on Gumroad for $30. This listing includes Wasteland (2019, 80min), Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners (2020, 50min), Barber Westchester (2022, 90min), and now Take Off The Blindfold Adjust Your Eyes Look In the Mirror See The Face Of Your Mother (2025, 85min)
Interview with Animation Obsessive about the film
The film made its festival premiere at Mammoth Lakes Film Festival in May 2025
And was first screened at Gene Siskel Film Center on May 7th 2025.
Music by Vania Junco
Sound Design by Ravinda "D" Wibowo
Guest Animation by
Lucy’s poem written by Janet Lee
With the voices of Felix Colgrave, Ian Worthington, Dylan Kanner, Zaria Bohanon, Chris Kim, Angela Choe, Lindsey DeMars, Jennifer Nie, Emiko Akiyama Tahara, Benni Quintero, Danielle Kogan, Nara Han Sifuentes, Aram Han Sifuentes, Maddie Brewer, Victoria Vincent, Chris Bumaa, Veronica Timble, Roman Le, Yaelin Kim, and me
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|| = a movie that is totally unstructured, big room between the parenthetical, not even any girding curvature, more parallel lines with no intention or density, which via purposeful vagueness require you, the viewer, to provide your own intermediary substance
0 = a movie that is too rigidly structured, a closed and total oval, so no room to apply any outside action, and you, the viewer, bounce off it like a solid
() = Take off the Blindfold Adjust Your Eyes Look in the Mirror See the Face of Your Mother,
a shifting and flexible rendered marquise eye, a perfect unstable oval which provides you, the viewer, with the laws for its own existence, mapping its nested layers of cones, providing an open but readable reversible system that you are actively brought into via your own personal rod and cone system, teaching you how to watch it even as its logic is being fractured in real-time and its signal is increasingly scrambled during transmission and the movie occasionally breaks off from its own unstable process of decay to rest in the wormy cranial flickering mechanism of image-less un-movie: scale becomes vertiginous, whizzing micro/macro, the viewer realizes he is, through his own personal rod and cone receptor system, viewing the terminal and tail end of a big dying body near the real moment of death, which will be quiet, but for now which is fuzzy, full of digital artifacts, with a real gauze of foggy pixel overlaid, organs sliding in and out at will, eyes which are touchable fleshy sacs () with their own negligible but real seam left open, for a blue ribbon of water pooling at the bottom of the image, an eye so close the tear is abstracted, really just a field of color
What I mean to say is the viewer cried, and this movie is perfect
Two thumbs up
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