Arrive. Complete a short questionnaire about your experience with language and imagination. Read one sentence.
Watch. The film runs 90 minutes. There is no right response. Your attention is the instrument.
Record what you saw. Not what happened — what you saw. Brief, precise, yours.
"The two great eyes of the sky — the gold and the silver — have opened at once, staring back at each other across a frozen meridian."
— The Departure: Zero Point
Sessions are held in Uzhhorod. Each includes a pre-survey, a 90-minute screening, and a post-session recording.
Zero Departure is a scientific study on imagination and literary experience, conducted at Uzhhorod National University. The project collects experimental data for a Marie Curie / Horizon Europe grant application on the cognitive and emotional dimensions of cinematic language.
Participation is voluntary and anonymous. Data is stored on a secure server in Canada (Oracle Cloud, ca-toronto-1). Participants may request deletion within 30 days: research@zd.roik.pro.
