The Soot

Incoming Editorial Team·Verified September 19, 2026

The film uses 80mm check tape as a analog cinematic medium. The movie demonstrates the peculiarities of the image produced by the thermal printer. The noise of the coarse grain becomes a separate expressive means and even the main character. Traveling through the gloomy images that are on the verge of discernibility the audience and its imagination becomes the basis of the narrative and the film itself. The film replicates the Rorschach test effect, where the viewer can perceive their own image within abstract forms. This effect became the foundation for creating the film.