​Hun Tun     (2024)

The film Hun Tun was born out of fascination. I once read a Taoist story about Hun Tun and was extremely intrigued, probably mainly because it didn't make sense. Try it for yourself:

"The emperor of the South Sea was called Shu [Brief], the emperor of the North Sea was called Hu [Sudden], and the emperor of the central region was called Hun-tun [Chaos]. Shu and Hu from time to time came together for a meeting in the territory of Hun-tun, and Hun-tun treated them very generously. Shu and Hu discussed how they could repay his kindness. "All men," they said, "have seven openings so they can see, hear, eat, and breathe. But Hun-tun alone doesn't have any. Let's try boring him some!" Every day they bored another hole, and on the seventh day Hun-tun died."

I wanted to make a film about it. But how do you talk about chaos, about what I don't understand, about the elusive? So I had to capture it. Thanks to the film and thanks to my collaborators Karolína and Saša, I started to unravel the threads of my own inner chaos. We probably captured that cosmic chaos a little too, but it was good. The threads intertwined again and formed this short film. Now let's unravel them again!