yawn (working title)
iceland

YAWN is a sensory film that unfolds between two realities: an oppressive work environment obsessed with productivity, and an alternative one accessed through a yawn.

The film opens on a team meeting. A manager presents growth charts. One employee begins to yawn — a small yawn, quickly suppressed. A second, longer yawn follows. As yawns interrupt choreographed meetings and productivity rhythms, sound, movement, and colour transform to reveal a second reality: an inner landscape where complex textures return, repetition soothes the senses, and humans become anecdotal.

The yawn becomes the film's central character — an embodied act of escape, a refusal requiring no permission, a portal that allows the body to leave while remaining physically present. It spreads: through the room, the city, bus stops, computer screens. Work identities dissolve. The film ends with a collective fall through textural elements, dissolving into grass and soil.

YAWN explores neurodivergence, burnout, and sensory regulation in systems designed to suppress rest and stimming. It is an empathetic, embodied film about rest and unproductivity — an experience intended to spread to its audience.