Yapım Tarihi - 2025
Süre - 00:06:20
Formatı - Canlandırma, Renkli, Türkçe
Yönetmen / Director - Elif Dokur
Senarist / Writer - Elif Dokur
Yapımcı / Producer - Elif Dokur
On a moonlit night, a woman unjustly condemned returns as a dark tale of
vengeance, altering the fate of a quiet village.
“Whisper of the Well”, my short animated film, I reinterpret historical and
cultural forms of violence against women through the lens of the Japanese
narrative tradition and the ghostly figure of the Onryō. The return of a woman’s
spirit—ostracized, silenced, and labeled a “witch” before being brutally
murdered—is not merely an expression of personal rage, but a symbolic act of
resistance against patriarchal structures, societal lynch culture, and the long-standing
history of femicide. The use of motifs such as the well and the crow evokes the
metaphysical layers of Eastern folklore, while elements of ambiguity, silence,
and death help construct a tense and haunting atmosphere. The reappearance of
the female character after death emphasizes that justice, though delayed, may
eventually prevail, and that silenced voices will one day echo back. Through
this narrative, I aim to make visible—through the language of cinema—the
invisible existence and marginalized bodies of women.