Aquaculture
2018 · 12m · USA
Directed by Artemis Shaw
Genres: comedy, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
The employees of a cult-like biotech startup voluntarily test their company's product on themselves, under the quietly eccentric vision of their founder. A satire about startup culture's grandiose messianism played as sincere absurdism.
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The scouts
Josephine Decker — herself a filmmaker — starring in a film about startup cult employees who test products on themselves. The casting alone is a commentary.
Josephine Decker starring in a Bay Area cult-startup satire that plays sincerity AS the horror — that's a sharper read on tech messianism than most features manage, and Artemis Shaw's restraint sounds promising.
Josephine Decker starring as a cult-CEO of an underwater-breathing biotech, played sincere instead of arch — that's the rare satire that earns its weirdness through restraint rather than punchlines.