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Reduction

Sam Barnett · Experimental / Sci-Fi / Animation · 6 min · 7K views

Directed by Sam Barnett · Starring Carol Rhyu · 2011

Inside a man's mind, thoughts live as amoeba-like organisms; when a deformed one threatens him, he learns to shrink thoughts down, and can't stop.

A strange, rotoscoped journey into how suppressing thoughts can become compulsion.

Reduction is an animated film in which the processes in a man's subconscious, such as impulses to suppress unwanted thoughts or feelings, exist as amoeba like organisms in the vast ocean of his mind. Thoughts mate and th

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