Off-Center

This short offers a hypnotic, sense of synesthesia in flux thanks to the use of an endless escalator, moving signage and an extreme close-up courtesy of my ophthalmologist. Some viewers may feel a bit woozy, off-kilter, and that is fine. If you ever heard of either inner-ear syndrome or the surrealist trope of 'the exquisite corpse' you are just getting started. Score by Yair Etziony.

The Equilibrium of Excess: As a filmmaker, I have always been fascinated by the threshold where the biological meets the mechanical. This short film is an attempt to map that intersection—not through a traditional narrative, but through a sensory "overload" that mirrors the disorienting beauty of synesthesia in flux.

The film’s visual language is anchored in three pillars of rhythmic repetition that dismantle the viewer's sense of "arrival." Through the kinetic infinity of perpetual escalators, the strobe-like chromatic textures of moving city signage, and macro-ocular close-ups captured with clinical precision, the familiar world is rendered unrecognizable. By transforming the human eye into a vast, alien landscape through the lens of ophthalmological equipment, the work challenges our traditional perception of reality. This "Exquisite Corpse" of cinema stitches together the urban, the biological, and the mechanical, creating a fragmented body where sight is disconnected from the mind and movement no longer leads to a destination.

Designed to trigger a physiological response akin to the vertigo of inner-ear syndromes, the film invites a sensory dissolution where the body’s internal compass begins to spin. The low-frequency oscillations of Yair Etziony’s score act as a vibrational glue, resonating within the chest to blur the boundary between visual observation and physical sensation. This is not a work intended for academic translation, but a visceral meditation on instability. It is an invitation to abandon the search for traditional narrative and instead succumb to the tilt of a world losing its footing.