No Significant Change

A short animated film exploring the narrative and visual perspective of the nonhuman. The film follows a storm simultaneously experiencing ordinary human stories disrupted in its wake. Through brutalist 3D, multi-focal editing, and unique sound design, the project imagines an extra-corporeal viewpoint, distancing itself from the singular hero’s journey and the human camera lens.

How can we imagine an animated narrative that is not strictly unifocal? The project “No Significant Change” proposes a narrative framework not driven by a human “hero”, but rather through the perspective of a storm. The cloud, devoid of a conventional lens, is exposed to simultaneous human stories unfolding during a storm, ranging from a young man seeking escapism to a bus driver in the Arava desert.

The working process began with a script I wrote during a student exchange semester in MOME, Budapest. It evolved into visual experiments inspired by multi-pinhole cameras and collages, in an attempt to capture a multi-focal vision. The final platform was created in a 3D environment using an abstract-brutalist style. The cloud’s narrative and visual perspective is formed through visual and temporal collage, alongside a psycho-acoustic soundtrack that creates the experience of dwelling within matter.

I wanted the camera and the animation to behave in ways no off-the-shelf tool gave me, so I built custom procedural systems in Blender and animated through Blender controlled by Claude. Claude Code ran a modular workspace that held the project together. On top of that sits a multi-hole camera obscura effect.