
Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.
In Destino, consciousness is carried by toys and objects — a plane of “surreal dreamscape”. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing love, time, transformation, identity, mortality.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Air Doll (2009)consciousness in objects · air doll
Toy Story 2 (1999)consciousness in objects · toy-shelf world
Cult of Chucky (2017)consciousness in objects · possessed doll horror
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)consciousness in objects · enchanted castle
Barbie in the Nutcracker (2001)consciousness in objects · toy-kingdom adventure
Once Upon a Snowman (2020)consciousness in objects · snowman odysseyThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Little Mermaid (1989)consciousness in animals · identity, love
Howl's Moving Castle (2004)consciousness in monsters · identity, love
Bicentennial Man (1999)consciousness in machines · identity, love
The Book of Life (2014)consciousness in abstractions · identity, love
Wish Dragon (2021)consciousness in monsters · identity, love
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)consciousness in animals · identity, love