Jessika Akpaka

Leaf Man is a metaphysical monster movie following a man's odyssey through a world of perspective-shifting existential transformations. With momentum from a powerful shoegaze score, this wordless short film uses surreal and strange dual-roled characters to dance through the boundary between ourselves, our surroundings, and each other, in the search for a meaningful life.

Water poured into a vase holds the shape of the vase. So too the vessel of the body holds the strange matter of the soul. It is easy to forget the vessel and think the soul solid. Death is a remembering - where the dissolving vessel can no longer be ignored, and the shapeless soul expands along axes unknown and unknowable.