Moss Grew
3D Animated Short Film
2022
Writer, Director, Animation: Ghazal Majidi
Music: Rojin Sharafi
Animation Assistant: Mohamadreza Hejazi
Mastering: Rashad Becker
Moss Grew is an experimental short animation exploring the spaces between life and death—liminal and fertile for distortion and transformation. A house devoured by nature becomes a relic of human existence, with only the objects left behind serving as traces of life. The film delves into the relationship between humans and the objects they interact with, particularly as it pertains to our perception of home. Do these objects hold our memories and carry them into the future? What becomes of these stored memories when we are long gone?
Moss Grew playfully envisions a post-apocalyptic world infused with magic, where the walls release the phantoms of the past. As the melancholic sounds of the film echo through the crumbling ruins, forgotten memories are temporarily revived in a cleansing, magical ritual.
Taking an experimental approach, Moss Grew defies traditional narrative conventions, embracing the aesthetics of noise to tell its story. Inspired by the chaos and imperfections of the human condition, the film pushes the boundaries of its world to create something both haunting and evocative.