*Star Wars: Visions* Short *BLACK*: Animation Depicting a Stormtrooper’s Collapse
Shinya Ohira's dialogue-free Star Wars: Visions short BLACK depicts a stormtrooper's psychological collapse through hand-drawn first-person animation and jazz.
Director Shinya Ohira
Distributor Disney+
Production david production · Lucasfilm
Release 2025-10-29 (Disney+)
Running Time 13 minutes
The Work and Its Production
*BLACK* is a 13-minute short by director Shinya Ohira, included in Volume 3 of *Star Wars: Visions*. Without dialogue, it depicts the intermingling of battle memories, guilt, and the fear of death as it enters the consciousness of a Stormtrooper at the moment the Death Star is destroyed.
Rather than orderly 3D spaces, the work foregrounds loose, rough lines, heavily shaking forms, and images that momentarily split apart. In particular, its first-person scenes do not rely on a CG camera; nearly every element on screen was redrawn frame by frame, conveying the character’s unstable sensations through the animation itself.
Sakura Fujiwara’s jazz music intentionally clashes with the violence on screen. Director Ohira divided nine scenes among animators from several countries, then brought their different forms of expression together into a single psychological flow.
Produced by david production and Lucasfilm, *BLACK* premiered on Disney+ on October 29, 2025, and was also selected for the short film competition at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.