Ink
2009
film · 2009 · 4 min read

Ink

The War for a Sleeping Child Is Fought in the Astral

Directed by Jamin Winans

Astral PlaneSoul RetrievalPsychopompKarmaDream
Winans built a working metaphysics on no budget and it cuts deeper than films with a hundred times the money. While a businessman sleeps, luminous Storytellers and shadow Incubi fight over his daughter's soul on the astral plane. Ink, the broken creature who steals her, is the man's own severed self trying to buy a way back into belonging. A drifter who navigates by sound walks the role of psychopomp, and the moment the timelines fold back is one of the cleanest pictures of karma correcting itself ever filmed.

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  • Meet the shadow: what is rejected, projected, and finally integrated
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