Ethereal Echoes

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Ethereal Echoes
Creator Melek Bahce
Year 2023
Bio Melek B. (1999) is a North Cypriot filmmaker and visual artist, currently based in Rotterdam. She completed Bachelor's in Film Directing and Writing at Warsaw Film school. Coming from a background in live-action fiction film directing, writing and acting, her artistic practice now focuses on making films that explore ways of telling mythological and metaphysical stories through constructing miniature sets and creating puppet characters. She is interested in investigating anthropological questions through through world-building and puppetry animation.
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Ethereal Echoes is a short film offering a mystical universe of entities. A mesmerizing odyssey turns into an otherworldly realm, where a mythological story unravels. Puppet characters thrive in their own existence, until a profound encounter with their reflections shatters the boundaries of time and forces them to confront mortality in a transformative odyssey. It investigates themes such as mortality, eternity and self-identity.