Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness

Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness

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Release Date

9/26/2026

Runtime

15 mins

Genres

Overview

A garden path, a billiards room, a solarium, a parlor—historical photographs of these shadowy scenes and spectral atmospheres are subject to strange and subtle transformations in Yixuan Zhang’s evocative stereoscopic film, which explores the uncanny space-time and illusions of depths hidden within the two-dimensional surface of the screen.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A hypnotic exploration of old photographs that seem to shift and breathe with hidden life, creating an eerie meditation on how images can haunt and deceive. Watching it feels like being drawn deeper into layers of shadow and illusion, where the boundary between stillness and movement dissolves.

Mood

UnsettlingContemplativeWistful

Themes

MemoryArt and creation

Tone

Detached

Pacing

Meditative

Look

FormalistBlack and whiteLong takes

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