MAKINA
FILM / 03
RELEASED

01 / SYNOPSIS
Imagination becomes an act of defiance.
A world built on compliance.
In a subterranean metropolis where imagination is criminalized as pathology, a dutiful conformist navigates the monochrome efficiency of societal machinery. His carefully constructed reality fractures upon encountering a young girl—her defiance manifested in furtive acts of creation the authorities have yet to extinguish. As flickers of long-suppressed creativity resurface within him, what begins as quiet curiosity evolves into dangerous awakening. Each clandestine brush with expression pulls him further from sanctioned reality, setting him on a collision course with the system that shaped him. His rebellion—intimate, internal, inevitable—unfolds with the quiet devastation of ice breaking. When the regime’s mechanisms finally engage to correct his deviation, the consequences illuminate the true nature of compliance in a world built on collective delusion. A meditative exploration of consciousness under constraint, where salvation and annihilation become indistinguishable at the boundaries of controlled thought.
02 / CREDITS
- Directed by
- Onur Erdurak
- With
- Kennedd Taylor, Danielle Aldrich, Jordan Rockwell, Karosh Parsapour, Melis Caner
- DoP
- Mark Bei Chen
- 1st AD
- Simone Thomas-Rowe, Kat Gaylord
- 1st AC
- Jessica Ebert, Rishabh Singvi
- Co-Produced by
- Melis Caner, Matteo Leva, Emily Luders, Cem Tekin
- Distribution
- Exosolar Films
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