TWO-WAY ROAD
Short Film (6 min)
Writer, Director, Editor
May 2025
Writer, Director, Editor
May 2025
The film stages a stark game of predator and prey, rooted in the psychological aftermath of trauma. As the title Two-Way Road suggests, the protagonist stands at a dillema, forced to choose between vengeance as the predator, or escape as the prey. Each decision inevitably redirects him onto another bifurcated path, where the roles col lapse into one another and he is ultimately made to suffer the consequences of his own choices.
The film adopts an experimental approach to editing by deliberately bending the linear flow of time. Rather than presenting events in a straight forward cause-and-effect sequence, the narra tive interweaves decisions and their outcomes as parallel forces. This structural choice seeks to unify form and content, allowing the film’s con struction to reflect its thematic concerns.
The editing often introduces a decision before immediately revealing its aftermath. In doing so, the film collapses temporal distance between in tent and result. This simultaneity emphasizes the inescapable bond between agency and respon sibility. Through these visual juxtapositions, the protagonist is positioned as both predator and prey within the same narrative breath.