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

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