The stuff that our wildest dreams are made of gets
disintegrated, then crystallized into a strange, luminous matter, and finally
filtered through whatever lies inside a black hole, to be assimilated into The Flying
Fish. The question arises: What is the titular creature? Is it the embodiment
of an eternal, restless spirit? A lost thought of some supreme entity? Or could
it be the essence of an alternate, unparalleled universe about to be born?
Whatever the answer may be, Sayginer's sublime, highly mysterious or rather,
mystical fantasy pierces one's soul and gradually melts, creating a protective
velum around it.
Thoughtfully composed of ten (very) short films created over
the period of several years, The Flying Fish is not a simple sum of its parts,
but a fusion of the highest order; a singular vision that burrows deep in the
collective subconscious and plants the seed of the Great Unknown. Following its
puzzling inner logic of blurred dichotomies and meta-mythological thought, it
plunges you into an infinite, continuously mutating world, both compelling and
somewhat frightening in its open-minded amalgamation of the mental, the
physical, the virtual and the transcendental. During an uninterrupted series of
neo- or cyber-alchemical processes, we witness, inter alia, the metamorphosis
of a solid sphere into a liquid micro-universe, the birth of a brand new
constellation preceding a psychedelic delirium, skeletons performing a
ritualistic dance around an ominously looking deer-goddess, and a tower (silo?)
of enigmatic hooded figures observing Ascension from their cryogenic
capsule-like cages!
And somehow, one feels and intuitively knows that everything
makes perfect sense - the abscence of words (for the most of the film's running
time), the idiosyncratic utilization of glossy, hyper-stylized CGI, as well as
the occasional pokes at contemporary society in an otherwise poetic, esoteric,
symbolically charged narrative which crescendos in astonishing scenes of a
neonized afterlife underscored by a pulsating synth music.
Nikola Gocic's review of ''The Flying Fish'' a short film by
Murat Saygıner who is also known as a self-taught digital artist, retoucher, motion designer, filmmaker and composer.
Find out more on muratsayginer.com
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