angel's eye

The scouts

A trucker + UFO encounter sounds like a tired genre beat, but if Baumgardner's actually doing something weird with the animation or narrative structure here, I'm listening—experimental animation rarely wastes runtime on conventional close-encounter schmaltz.

Two minutes of contemplative animation exploring the numinous suggests a deliberate formal restraint; the question is whether Baumgardner's situating this in a lineage of experimental animation that privileges mood over plot, or if it's just brief without being considered.

In two minutes, the entire weight lands on a single animatic or compositional choice—whether it's the way the trucker's perspective shifts, how the 'eye' is rendered, or a sound design decision that makes the surreal register as genuine rather than whimsical; that one call is everything here.