Inanimate (2018)

Katrine leads a normal life, with a normal job and a normal relationship. But one day she awakes to find the world around her has changed. Or rather, its the same but she is seeing it with different eyes, noticing things she never saw before. Her reality starts to crumble. She becomes aware of small discontinuities in time and space, abruptly she is whipped from one place to another. Then she takes a closer look at the everyday objects around her, things she has seen and touched many times before are now flat, falling apart, fake. At breakneck speed she travels through this hyper-real, dark, magical thrill-ride of what used to be her life to arrive at the edge of an animation set. Here she realises that not just her surroundings are fake but she herself, a puppet, is as well. Driven to desperation she steps off the set, into the void and finds herself in the mind of her animator, her human counterpart. For a brief moment she inhabits the consciousness of her animator, soaking in her surrounding, the "real world" as, the audience, we know it. But when she realises that she is not alone in her fate, that everyone she knows, including her boyfriend Patrick, has an animator of their own, she decides to return to her puppet world and live with the knowledge of what lies behind the veil of her reality.