An Object at Rest
2015 · 6m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Seth Boyden
Genres: adventure, animation, comedy
A rock's story is followed from the origin of time to the present day. Along the way, it contends with its greatest adversary, human civilization.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A rock as protagonist across deep time with humanity as the villain—it's the kind of premise that should be terrible, and yet Boyden leans so hard into the absurdist logic that it actually *works*. Comedy through cosmic scale and geologic patience is exactly the subversive move most scouts would pass on.
The film's formal constraint—following a single inanimate object through epochs—demonstrates real discipline in sustaining a conceptual premise across its runtime, and the animation choices support a clear lineage to philosophical and experimental animation traditions.
The decision to make the rock's antagonist not an individual but *civilization itself* is the crucial pivot that transforms what could be a cute gimmick into something genuinely strange; that framing choice, and the economy with which it's executed across six minutes, is where the whole thing lives.