Star Wars: Visions ‘ third “volume” hit Disney+ this week, delivering nine shorts from a bevy of talented Japanese animation studios , each delivering their vision of what Star Wars can be unbeholden to the typical constraints of its contemporary storytelling universe. But only one of those shorts this season took that goal of taking Star Wars somewhere completely and utterly new, and it did so brilliantly.

Although I’ve just slapped a giant “spoiler warning” above, it’s actually very difficult—intentionally so, it could be argued—to “spoil” what exactly David Productions’ “BLACK” , directed by Shinya Ohira. Positioned as the final short of the anthology, it’s 13 minutes long, features no dialogue, English or Japanese, outside of grunts, and is soundtracked exclusively by vibr

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