‽

‽ started as a list of my worst nightmares. Most of the list consisted of actual nightmares I've had, while some were visualisations of my fears. Turning the nightmares into a film script meant that I had to find a theme, something that would bind it all together. The climax was always the worst recurring nightmare I had as a child, almost to explicit to be true: being trapped inside a colossal clock with an unimaginably scary ticking noise. And time ended up being what connects the story.

In the end I never found the perfect unimaginable sound for the clock, as you might guess. That's just the thing with unimaginable things. Instead I decided that less is more and let the silent ticking play on the viewers mind. Throughout the film I played with sound to embody the things that go on in the mind. I wanted to let picture and sound speak for themselves and omitted dialogue. The title ‽, an interrobang, is in itself a wordless way of expression.

Making this film was a way of coming to terms with my own fears. But the result seems to reflect some of the fears that plague the general society. What if I'm not good enough? What if I'm not fast enough? Will I ever catch up?

The film could be viewed as a single long nightmare. It could be viewed as memories, contemplation, or as mere symbols of our fears. Either way it's a film about time, fear and the chaos of the mind.