The soul of a deer that went missing

:The Soul of a Deer That Went Missing" is an experimental, choreographic film that investigates how perception is shaped — and destabilized — through the moving image. Developed through the continuous rotation of the camera, the work removes the stability of horizon, ground, and orientation, constructing a perceptual field where spatial logic cannot fully settle. Within this shifting axis, the performer moves in a state of perpetual negotiation, where falling and rising become indistinguishable from one another. Balance is never achieved, only continuously deferred. What initially appears as disorientation or loss of control gradually reveals itself as another form of bodily alignment. The work approaches the figure of the deer not as representation, but as trace: a sensing presence attuned to subtle environmental shifts and forces operating beyond the visible frame. Through the camera’s rotation, perception fractures and reorganizes. The viewer is drawn into a destabilized sensory experience in which movement is understood less through visual certainty and more through kinesthetic sensation. The movement emerges directly from these unstable conditions. Rather than relying on fixed sequences, the performer navigates states of imbalance, suspension, redirection, and near-collapse. Movement is generated through continuous adaptation, as though the body were sensing its environment rather than consciously determining action. In this context, the “missing” of the title functions both as narrative absence and perceptual condition. Something always remains unreachable: a center, an orientation, a stable point of return. Instead of resolving this absence, the film sustains it, inviting viewers to inhabit uncertainty as an embodied experience. Positioned between choreography, experimental cinema, and perceptual inquiry, *The Soul of a Deer That Went Missing* reflects on instability not as failure, but as a mode of attention — one that reconsiders how bodies orient themselves within continuously shifting worlds.