Devin Townsend - The Puzzle

So, this is the film for ’The Puzzle’ - a multimedia project created during lockdown. Its pretty abstract, but under the surface its theme is pretty simple: Its a visualization of an inner dialogue, and the consequent recognition of that dialogue. The story is based around a protagonist (in this case it was me, simply because I couldn’t hire an actor at that point in time) and how every decision we make is informed by a lifetime of unconscious internalization of events from our past. The internal dialogue is always chattering away. Breaking that cycle is how one would ’solve the puzzle’. Its in two halves... after the chaos of ’The Puzzle’, part 2 is the companion piece ’Snuggles’, and exists in the aftermath, (sort of ’outside of time’ in a way), and as such is more of a ’meditation’ than an active film. it was a very important moment for me, so I wanted to share it online as very few people got the chance to see it when it cam