The Encarne Trilogy is a series of no-budget shorts regarding the creation of my son and his entrance into the physical plane. It won Honorable Mention for Best Experimental Film at the 2025 Paris Around Films International Film Festival (ARFF), Best Arthouse in the Absurd Film Festival Monthly (Milan) July 2025, and Bangkok Society of Film Critics Award for Experimental Film at the Bangkok Movie Awards for July 2025.
Review by Andie Kay:
This zero budget short film from SI Reasoning is an award winning surrealist short film split into multiple acts. It’s very experimental, avant garde and definitely surreal. What impressed me was the quality of the cinematography for this short as well as the make up application on the actors. Even the blending of superimposing one image onto another was decently done for not having a budget.
Musically this had a very apocalyptic feel and quickly became a cacophony of sound. Having that degree of repetitive dissonance without resolve is auditorily uncomfortable. Perhaps that was the idea all along, to create discomfort through music? Either way it works great as you can’t keep your eyes and ears off the film. There is a magnificent blend of a visual design, mixed with the music, that gives the viewer a new emotion. This is what experimental film is all about. There is a great story here, but in many ways it’s all about what the individual thinks and feels. And they’ll interpret their own story.
I am aware that this is SI Reasoning’s first film – can’t wait to see what he does next.
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