There was a short film I saw online a few years ago that I thought was incredible. I’ve lost track of it and don’t remember the name, so maybe it will ring a bell with someone.
It was only about five minutes or less, produced with professional standards and effects (not a home movie type), and it had no dialogue. It’s live action, not animated.
Here is the description: A guy finds that a “thing” is following him everywhere. The thing is larger than a man, a weird nondescript shape, and it’s vaguely menacing. It’s always close by and unnerving to the man. You get the feel that this thing is his representation of guilt, or sorrow, or fear, something like that. It’s always there, always looming over him.
The man goes to work and to a meeting, where he sees his coworkers have their own “things” shadowing them, and making them uncomfortable. Probably he could see theirs only because he now had his own thing. The message seems to be that other people have their burdens following them around all day too, not just you. At the end, I think the man somehow sheds himself of his thing and it attaches to some passerby.
I know it sounds odd, but this film was incredibly effective and creepy. I’d like to see it again but don’t have any idea where to find it now. Anyone think they’ve seen it?