A new experimental short film by Jules Guerin
DENEB is an experimental animated short exploring creation, transformation, and consciousness through the language of myth.
The film began from a simple image: a tear falling from a star.
From there, it unfolded as a contemporary myth assembled from fragments of gnostic cosmologies, animist visions, Edenic archetypes, psychedelic revelation, and the intuition that consciousness does not begin with humans.
At its core, DENEB is a story of descent: a movement from light into matter, from innocence into knowledge, from unity into multiplicity—and perhaps back again.
Its figures—the Man, the Woman, the Serpent, the Deity, the Empress, the Child—are not characters in a conventional narrative sense. They function as archetypes, states of perception, and stages of transformation. They emerge, dissolve, and recombine throughout the film's dreamlike progression.
Created over several years, DENEB brings together a wide range of visual processes and techniques into a single evolving tapestry. Drawn, animated, generated, and transformed imagery coexist within a visual language that embraces mutation rather than stability. Images shift, breathe, and continuously become something else.
Rather than offering answers, DENEB invites viewers into a symbolic journey where mythology, cosmology, birth, love, and consciousness intersect.
It is not a narrative to decipher, but a passage to experience.
Direction & Animation: Jules Guérin
Music & Sound Design: Hugo Baisez & Jules Guérin
