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The Shape I Followed

Released2025
Length7 min
Written and Directed ByBlake Swaidner
GenreDrama, Surreal
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Synopsis

After encountering a strange figure in his home, a man loses his grip on reality. As the boundary between his inner and outer world dissolves, he must confront the presence that has been following him.

Director's Statement

"For The Shape I Followed, my goal was to make a film that doesn't describe dissociation but transports the viewer into a strange, distant world the way dissociation itself does. Every formal choice—dreamlike storytelling, hypnotic sound design, masked figure, and doubled apparition—exists to thin the line between the man and the presence he follows, between the part of the self that watches and the part that doesn't recognize itself."

Blake Swaidner

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