WHEN I SEE YOU AT THE END OF THE WORLD

Showing In

SHORTS PROGRAM 3: GENREQUEST
Hammer Theatre Center Wed, Mar 11 9:30 PM
Aliens, crimes, futures, fantasies—and everything in between. This high-energy genre mashup delivers bold ideas, wild visuals, and unforgettable twists across sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, and animation.
SHORTS PROGRAM 3: GENREQUEST
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema #1 Sat, Mar 14 12:20 PM
Aliens, crimes, futures, fantasies—and everything in between. This high-energy genre mashup delivers bold ideas, wild visuals, and unforgettable twists across sci-fi, fantasy, thrillers, and animation.
Film Info
Type of Film/Event:Film
Runtime (minutes):7
Premiere Status:World Premiere
Genre:Sci-Fi
Original Language:Mandarin
English
Subtitles (Language):English
Cast/Crew Info
Cast:Jessica Lee
Terry Li
David Lovio
Director:Giselle Liu
Executive Producer:Lei Shi
Ming Liu
Producer(s):Giselle Liu
Screenwriter:Giselle Liu
Cinematography:Giselle Liu
Music By:Yehezkel Raz
Editor:Zhenxing Shao ( Shawn )

Description

Set within a dim and confined space, the film unfolds through the hesitant, searching monologue of a young girl. She feels as though she has lived through hundreds of deaths—worlds collapsing again and again, each collapse pushing her into chaos and the unknown. Time loses its linear meaning, leaving only repetition and suspension. With the sudden arrival of an “end of the world,” the girl, Meg, is forced into a journey of self-reckoning. She attempts to understand her own existence within a collapsing reality, only to find that everything remains unstable. Space, memory, and emotion become entangled and indistinguishable. Reality no longer functions as a reliable point of reference, but as a perceptual structure that may fail at any moment. As the narrative unfolds, a quiet shift begins to emerge. The entirety of Meg’s existence—her joy, sorrow, struggle, and regret—seems not to arise independently, but to resemble an emotional projection from a higher dimension. The apocalypse she experiences reads less as physical destruction than as an emotional collapse. The film does not rush to separate the real from the unreal, allowing the two to coexist and permeate one another. Gradually, Jess is introduced within a more recognizable reality. Meg’s existence appears to function as an emotional projection of Jess’s inner state, while the source of Jess’s own predicament remains suspended. Everything Meg experiences feels both real and illusory, like a surrogate world shaped by emotion itself. “Reality” no longer refers to reliable origin, but to the intensity with which something is felt. Through resonance, misalignment, and overlap across different dimensions, the film blurs the boundary between emotional memory and physical space, staging an experiment in the absurdity of reality. Guided by Meg’s voice and Jess’s actions, the audience enters an emotional labyrinth, approaching what might be understood as “truth” while recognizing its instability. Distrust in reality is not an obstacle, but one of the film’s central concerns. The collapsing world is less a spectacle than an emotional metaphor—an ongoing condition rather than a single ending. The film reflects contemporary anxieties and self-examination surrounding relationships, emotional life, identity, and the conditions of survival, ultimately calling into question the meaning of existence itself. When reality loses stability, collapse no longer requires justification; it becomes part of everyday experience. For this reason, the film is meant to be seen in 2025. In an era where technology increasingly reconstructs reality, perceptions of what is “real” are continuously weakened and rewritten. Emotions are copied, projected, and substituted through screens and systems, while relationships persist through rupture, delay, and dislocation. When I See You At The End Of The World does not offer solutions, but renders this condition visible. Without a dramatic conclusion, humanity is silently moving toward a form of self-reconstruction that requires coexistence with uncertainty, solitude, and the unknown. The fragile, collapsing world reflects an existential dilemma that emerges when technological development advances faster than our capacity to build emotional structures capable of sustaining it.