Before U Go

The scouts

Death-as-departure narratives are a dime a dozen, but wrapping it in animation + surrealism feels like the safe move—I'd need to see the film prove it's doing something genuinely perverse with that premise, not just dressing up sentiment in otherworldly paint.

The melancholic-contemplative register suggests a deliberate relationship to the elegiac tradition in animation; if the formal choices—cut, color, sound design—are operating at that level of intention, this could be a quietly rigorous addition to the canon.

Thirteen minutes of animation + death + surrealism on an external submission is a risk, but the tonal specificity (melancholic AND contemplative, not just sad) suggests someone knew exactly which emotional frequency to dial in—if there's one cut or sound design moment that anchors all that abstraction, this lands.