EGO is my debut short film, a 6min deeply personal project
Synopsis:
In a vast desert, a lost Cube struggles to fit in with the shapes around him. He keeps layering new forms over himself to belong, burying what he is, under what he thinks he should be, he grows heavier and slower with each disguise. The weight of fake identities accumulates until he can no longer hold himself up and collapses into a formless, unrecognizable mass.
In the silence that follows, he sees his reflection. He sees his core, what's underneath all those shapes he performed for others. He takes a single, terrifying act of courage and strips all away. Layer by layer, the false forms fall. What emerges is sharper than before. Brighter. Unmistakably him.
The film is now applying to festivals, so I cannot show it publicly, but I’ll leave you with some still frames:
Direction: Diogo Assis, Rafael Vicente
Written: Diogo Assis
Production: VoxelWolves
Music Production & Sound Design: Box of Toys
3D: Diogo Assis, Rafael Vicente, Carolina Conceição
Typography Design: Losers Studio