Reduction - Experimental Animation Directed By Sam Barnett

Reduction is an animated film in which the processes in a man’s subconscious, such as impulses to suppress unwanted thoughts or feelings, exist as amoeba like organisms in the vast ocean of his mind. Thoughts mate and thoughts are born and they attempt to take root. When a Deformed thought threatens to destabilize the man’s consciousness he learns how to destroy thoughts by reducing them into a manageable form. When he gains the power to reduce thoughts, reduction becomes compulsion, and the world is reduc