In This Short, Mysterious Lights Bring Famous Paintings to Life

In “Nightlight” by Emmanuel Adjei and Marleen Ozgur, a strange magic brings the paintings of famous Dutch masters to life. The lights bring out a girl from Rembrandt’s The Night Watch, who wanders the worlds of these paintings, eventually traveling beyond time and space.

There’s a moment of nudity, so slightly NSFW:

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