Tunnel Burrowed

Having gone through depersonalization and derealization disorder, some of the most difficult moments of my life, I wanted to create something that expressed what those states truly felt like. Presenting the experience in a conventional or linear way felt dishonest to its nature, because dissociation itself is fragmented, surreal, and often impossible to fully explain through words alone.

Instead, I approached the film as a collection of fractured moments: dissociative shorts stitched together to recreate the emotional and psychological feeling of the experience. The goal was not only to express my own relationship with depersonalization and derealization, but also to give others a window into a state of mind that is often misunderstood or difficult to communicate.