Syzygy

A FILM BY NAYDEN NIKOLOV

Short animation | Bulgaria | 15'00" | DCI 2k native | 2.1ch, Stereo | No dialogue | Subtitles: English | In production, 2026

Synopsis

A microscopic, three-legged wolf-like creature is enclosed in self-encapsulated subjectivity, which has the world-form of a cave inhabited by appearances. His going out of the abstract subjectivity in order to realize himself as concretely, standing worldly Self, occurs through his entry into the mythical-utopian reality created by his schizoid and only friend the Bull-like being. It turns out that his friend draws him in stories which are more true than the reality upon which they appear as a fantasy. Put in a state of “State of Exception”, it goes ecstatically beyond its status quo self-enclosure and realizes itself by sharing the world in the struggle and mutual recognition of the different versions of it.