Is the black mass at the heart of The Clearing gradually filling the frame of this enigmatic short film with meaning? Or is it a growing, but still empty void, clearing out the picture and rendering the film an all-encompassing nothingness? Turning charcoal drawings into digitally processed imagery, the director creates what he describes as an “indefinable space.” Assisted by the co-director stretched-out abstract music, The Clearing becomes a haunting reflection on how space and time fold into each other.