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Through the Looking Glass

For audiences drawn to philosophical weird fiction and the slow, atmospheric dread of Andrei Tarkovsky or Stanislaw Lem, Through the Looking Glass offers a deeply meditative cinematic experience.

The narrative begins amidst the suffocating sensory overload of Bangkok. Alice, a tech developer testing prototype AR glasses, becomes fixated on a phantom anomaly: a pristine man in a white suit gliding effortlessly through the chaotic streets. Pursuing him into a dead-end alleyway, she pushes her hand into solid concrete and is violently thrust out of her reality.

She wakes in absolute silence, stranded in a boundless, dormant meadow alongside a disparate group of locals: a street food vendor, a monk, and a fractured family. None of them know how they arrived, but a terrifying convergence binds their pasts together. As they struggle to understand their environment, the monk identifies this strange, static realm as a space "between kamma"—a terrifying crossroads where the mind gets stuck, a place where nothing grows and nothing truly dies.

As the group fractures and wanders deeper into a landscape of jungle-swallowed Khmer ruins and quiet, unsettling anomalies, the laws of the natural world begin to unravel. The film strips away its modern framework to reveal a strange, literary exploration of memory, the burden of existence, and what happens to the human soul when time simply stops processing.

Through the Looking Glass is presented entirely in 21:9 Black and White widescreen format, utilizing greyscales and visceral textures to build a world of inescapable weight.

The film rationalizes an Alice in Wonderland story utilizing Buddhist cosmology and quantum physics. It's not an action film. Questions, just ask!

Through the Looking Glass

For audiences drawn to philosophical weird fiction and the slow, atmospheric dread of Andrei Tarkovsky or Stanislaw Lem, Through the Looking Glass offers a deeply meditative cinematic experience.

The narrative begins amidst the suffocating sensory overload of Bangkok. Alice, a tech developer testing prototype AR glasses, becomes fixated on a phantom anomaly: a pristine man in a white suit gliding effortlessly through the chaotic streets. Pursuing him into a dead-end alleyway, she pushes her hand into solid concrete and is violently thrust out of her reality.

She wakes in absolute silence, stranded in a boundless, dormant meadow alongside a disparate group of locals: a street food vendor, a monk, and a fractured family. None of them know how they arrived, but a terrifying convergence binds their pasts together. As they struggle to understand their environment, the monk identifies this strange, static realm as a space "between kamma"—a terrifying crossroads where the mind gets stuck, a place where nothing grows and nothing truly dies.

As the group fractures and wanders deeper into a landscape of jungle-swallowed Khmer ruins and quiet, unsettling anomalies, the laws of the natural world begin to unravel. The film strips away its modern framework to reveal a strange, literary exploration of memory, the burden of existence, and what happens to the human soul when time simply stops processing.

Through the Looking Glass is presented entirely in 21:9 Black and White widescreen format, utilizing greyscales and visceral textures to build a world of inescapable weight.

The entire film is based on the structure of Alice in Wonderland. You'll be surprised at the complete flipside of the story. It's not a children's story anymore. No gore, no sex, no stupid stuff. Grounded in Thai culture and Buddhist cosmology. Questions, just ask!

Here's film 1 of a planned 6 film cycle.The last 2 will be The Nightland and Mountains of Madness.

For audiences drawn to philosophical weird fiction and the slow, atmospheric dread of Andrei Tarkovsky or Stanislaw Lem, Through the Looking Glass offers a deeply meditative cinematic experience.

The narrative begins amidst the suffocating sensory overload of Bangkok. Alice, a tech developer testing prototype AR glasses, becomes fixated on a phantom anomaly: a pristine man in a white suit gliding effortlessly through the chaotic streets. Pursuing him into a dead-end alleyway, she pushes her hand into solid concrete and is violently thrust out of her reality.

She wakes in absolute silence, stranded in a boundless, dormant meadow alongside a disparate group of locals: a street food vendor, a monk, and a fractured family. None of them know how they arrived, but a terrifying convergence binds their pasts together. As they struggle to understand their environment, the monk identifies this strange, static realm as a space "between kamma"—a terrifying crossroads where the mind gets stuck, a place where nothing grows and nothing truly dies.

As the group fractures and wanders deeper into a landscape of jungle-swallowed Khmer ruins and quiet, unsettling anomalies, the laws of the natural world begin to unravel. The film strips away its modern framework to reveal a strange, literary exploration of memory, the burden of existence, and what happens to the human soul when time simply stops processing.

Through the Looking Glass is presented entirely in 21:9 Black and White widescreen format, utilizing greyscales and visceral textures to build a world of inescapable weight.

The Nightland is way overdue for a good adaptation. It was the foundation for getting here. It just grew. Any questions I will try my best to answer.