Latent Horizon

4k video, animation & sound
5 min 46 sec
2025

A young boy journeys through surreal, ever-shifting cityscapes in a visual poem inspired by dyslexia that reveals the beauty and brilliance of thinking differently. Combining stop-motion, collage animation, and live-action, the film follows his passage through imaginative worlds where scale, rhythm, and material logic constantly transform. Inspired by the director’s shared experiences with her son, Latent Horizon reflects on how dyslexia shapes perception and time—fragmented, nonlinear, and full of moments that expand, collapse, and open into new ways of seeing.

Director, Cinematopher, Editor: Julie Orser
Featuring: Ari Orser Prunier and his drawings 
Crew: Niel Prunier and Kate Wendt
Stop-Motion Animators: Julie Orser and Ashley Zavala 
Animators - Charts & Rain Sequences: Emma Bell and Rachel Salners 
Animator - Green Boy, Garden, and Drawn City Sequences: Julie Orser 
Darkroom Production Assistants: Hugo Amarales and Grace Gioiello
Production Assistants: Esteban Marin and Jonathan Monory
Music: Broken Monitors by B.Fleischmann
Sound Design: Julie Orser
Audio Mix, Additional Sound Design, Additional Music: Wayne Peet
Additional Musicians: Wayne Peet, Ken Lasaine, Ellington Peet
Special Thanks: Kathy Baur, Eileen Cowin, Lauren Kaneshiro, Susan Mogul, Matt Orser, Niel Prunier, Thomas Wood

screenings:
52nd Seattle International Film, Seattle, WA, 2026
53rd Athens International Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH, 2026