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Oni: The Great Day Of Wrath

Experimental Video Art & Short Film format;
Oni: The Great Day Of The Wrath is an apocalyptic vision based on Japanese folk / Buddhist stories accompanied by a horror symphony, based on apocalyptic allegories of the 15th and 16th centuries.
With the concepts of Oni vs Mahakala, God and Satan / Yōkai questions the purpose of existence and creation of two great powers. The being that has to bring wrath creates a new cycle of wrath as it begins to question its own existence. The impulse of Mahakala, who is the guardian of order and time, to regulate Chaos, is synthesized with the survival drive of the Oni, and turns into a simple purpose of being in this apocalyptic story.
"I'm just hungry."
So who do we question in this case? Is it God? Or is it Yōkai ?


  • Melisa Nil Yesil
    Director
  • Melisa Nil Yesil
    Writer
  • Melisa Nil Yesil
    Producer
  • Kardelen Lâl Yesil
    Key Cast
    "Oni"
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes 8 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    October 4, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    30 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Türkiye
  • Country of Filming:
    Türkiye
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Dijital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Black & White
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • IFSAK 28TH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    March 13, 2022
    Institut français Istanbul
    Experimental Category, 2nd prize
  • AKBANK 17TH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
    Istanbul
    Turkey
    March 21, 2021
    Perspective Selection
Director Biography - Melisa Nil Yesil

Melisa Nil Yesil was born on 17th November 1996 in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2018, she graduated from Istanbul Kültür University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Communication Design and Cinema. She produces projects in the fields of short films and video art. Her works started to be exhibited in 2018. Studies; Social memory, masculinity in gender, alienation of individuals in a dystopic world, existential anxiety through the paranoia of fear of the unknown. Still continues to produce.

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Director Statement

Prophecies, Folk Stories, and Cosmic fears ... Our emotions tell us something about reality. Fear is one of them. Therefore, it becomes a means of perception and understanding. They all have an evolutionary, social and personal history. Man is a being living in the physical and symbolic universe. This makes our desires inhabitable in the realm of action, in the world of facts (positivism). We live together with fears and anxieties. These videos focus on nonexistent creatures and figures, myths, historical curiosities, the drive to survive and our purpose of being, with their own stories, creating the language of experimental narrative.