Osiris




Yapım Tarihi - 2025
Süresi - 00:30:00
Format - Kurmaca, Renkli, Türkçe

Yönetmen / Director - Onur Akın
Senarist / Writer - Onur Akın
Yapımcı / Producer - Onur Akın
Assistant Director - Neslihan Çokseven
Cinematographer - Onur Akın
Camera Operator - Onur Akın
Gaffer - Onur Akın
Art Director - Hümeyra Çetin
Makeup Artist - Hümeyra Çetin
Sound - Mert Demir; Editor - Onur Akın
Colorist - Onur Akın
Original Soundtrack - Batuhan Gümüşay

Ana Karakter / Key Cast
Yiğit Tarlabölen
Batuhan Gümüşay

After placing a gun to his head and pulling the trigger, a young man is drawn into a surreal and introspective space that appears to exist outside the boundaries of time and life itself. What unfolds is not an afterlife, but a dense psychological dimension sculpted entirely by his own subconscious, where he is confronted by a mysterious voice that dismantles his past layer by layer. Within this void, the protagonist undergoes a merciless interrogation that weaves through childhood traumas, emotional failures, inherited burdens, and the suffocating expectations of a society that never truly understood him. The voice, calm yet unrelenting, invokes elements of mythology, science, philosophy, and personal memory to expose the architecture of his suffering, creating an atmosphere that is both claustrophobic and poetic. Through its silent lead, monologic structure, and visually haunting style, the film explores the concept of self as both victim and executioner, turning the act of suicide into a cerebral confrontation with the very core of identity. Osiris is a meditation on the fragile nature of consciousness, the inescapable complexity of guilt, and the lingering question of whether liberation lies in escape or in understanding.

Osiris did not begin as a film but as a philosophical fracture as an inward collapse that demanded an external form as a question without punctuation as the shape of something I could not stop seeing in the mirror between moments of silence and panic I did not write this work as an author writes a story I stood inside it as one might stand in a dream that refuses to fade upon waking it came to me in one single night uninvited fully formed like a verdict that had been waiting to be spoken and I obeyed I was obsessed with the notion that at the threshold of death there exists a hyperconscious flicker where the mind attempts to compress the entire span of a life into a single gesture I imagined that moment not as a blur but as a room not as a vision but as a dimension not as memory but as interrogation the protagonist places a gun to his head and in that infinitesimal second of decision where thought and consequence collapse into each other he does not die he descends into himself or perhaps ascends beyond himself into a metaphysical limbo constructed entirely by the psychic residue of guilt regret denial and repressed memory here he is judged by a voice that seems both ancient and intimate mythic yet personal foreign yet familiar not divine not demonic but something in between not other but self this voice is Osiris not the Egyptian god not the symbol but the function of judgment the essence of conscience when stripped of narrative when made pure and merciless I chose to give that voice to a performer who speaks in a language that is not his own because the unnatural cadence the subtle fracture in fluency the dissonance between intention and articulation served to intensify the uncanniness of judgment spoken through a mask of language the protagonist never speaks not out of fear but because he has reached the limit of language because at a certain depth speech becomes meaningless and stillness becomes the only remaining form of resistance I chose amateur actors because I was not seeking performance I was seeking presence I was seeking unprocessed humanity I wanted to work with faces that did not know the rhythm of the camera that carried the awkwardness of reality I used artificial intelligence not as a tool of convenience but as a collaborator of the uncanny to distort sound and image in ways that echoed the fragmented architecture of memory I edited this film as if I were mapping the inside of a mind in crisis not to construct a story but to reconstruct a collapse Osiris is a philosophical experiment disguised as a film it is a cinematic monologue without a speaker a trial without a verdict a confession without words it owes its spiritual lineage to the bleak geometry of Bergman the temporal breath of Tarkovsky the existential inquisition of Dostoyevsky the quiet rebellion of Camus the violent poetry of Fight Club the melancholic silence of Manchester by the Sea the guilt-ridden spiral of There Will Be Blood and the unnameable weight of Kafka’s invisible court it is not a film that seeks to be watched it is a film that watches back it does not end it reverberates it does not resolve it haunts I read Nietzsche and Jung and Foucault and Schopenhauer and watched the light fall in Caravaggio and the shadows twist in German expressionism and I returned to the blank page with the understanding that cinema is not a product but a psychic architecture and in this architecture Osiris stands not as a monument but as a ruin not as an answer but as a wound this is my first medium-length film but in truth it is the first time I have ever spoken with absolute honesty even if I spoke through silence because in silence I found the only voice that did not lie I did not make Osiris to be understood I made it because I could not live without making it and I release it not to explain myself but to see if anyone else recognizes the shape of their own shadow inside its silence.



Kaynak
Yalova Film Festivali