Annecy Festival has revealed the short films for its Official Selection 2025, and included in the Official category is “Black,” a Star Wars: Visions episode directed by veteran animator Shinya Ohira.
“Black” will depict a “psychedelic battle between past and present, light and dark, and life and death plays out in the haunted psyche of an Imperial trooper who is on the cusp of defeat,” says Annecy’s description. The featured still shows several stormtroopers engulfed in laser and flame, while AT-STs stand silently in the background in their hangar bays.
Ohira, whose previous director credits include Genius Party Beyond “Wanwa” and Asura’s Wrath Episode 11.5 “Forging Ahead,” is also the writer for “Black.”
The music composer is Sakura Fujiwara, whose “Scent of First Love” anime music video (directed by Maho Takagi at CoMix Wave Films) we previously covered last year.
This year’s Annecy Festival will run from June 8 to 14. There are 34 other Official picks, including the French-Japanese co-production Ordinary Life.
Star Wars: Visions Season 3 is slated to premiere this year. Like the first season, it will feature contributions produced by Japanese animation studios.
“Black” is listed with a run time of 13 minutes.
Source: Annecy Festival (via Animation World Network)
