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Beyond

2003 · 13 min Science Fiction Animation
7.3 / 10 · TMDB

A young woman, searching for her lost cat, follows a trail that leads her and a band of curious neighborhood kids into a derelict building on the city's fringe. Inside, they stumble upon a realm where the fundamental rules of physics have dissolved. Reality warps and bends; rooms stretch into impossible labyrinths, gravity becomes a mere suggestion, and inanimate objects develop a eerie sentience. What begins as a simple rescue mission quickly morphs into a disorienting voyage into a pocket of pure anomaly, challenging everything they believe about the nature of their world.

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Year 2003
Country Japan
Genre Science Fiction, Animation
Director Koji Morimoto
Runtime 13 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.3/10 (149 votes)

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This animated short is a masterclass in visualizing reality's 'glitches,' trading plot for pure, abstract visual poetry of the absurd. It operates on the level of sensation and imagery, crafting a hypnotic stream of consciousness that feels both alien and intimately unsettling.

What lingers after the credits roll is the profound sense that our stable world is a fragile construct. The film serves as a brilliant, minimalist expansion of the Matrix lore, focusing not on heroes and villains, but on the eerie, liminal spaces where the simulation truly frays at the edges. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Koji Morimoto

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Surreal labyrinth, distorted geometry, an oppressive silence punctuated by the creaks of non-existent doors.

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