Black Holes
2017 · 12m · Estados Unidos
Directed by David Nicolas, Kevin Van Der Meiren, Laurent Nicolas
Tones: contemplative
Dave Nicholson is a distinguished astronaut committed to one of the greatest leaps toward humanity's future: the conquest of Mars and outer space.
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The setup screams prestige space-exploration drama, but somewhere in those 12 minutes the film seems to be asking a question everyone else is too polite to answer — and I'm genuinely not sure what it is, which either makes it brilliantly oblique or frustratingly opaque.
A formally composed meditation on ambition and the astronaut archetype that knows exactly how to frame its subject within the lineage of space-age cinema; the contemplative pacing and visual discipline suggest filmmakers aware of what they're inheriting and questioning.
The choice to hold on Nicholson's face in near-stillness while the narrative premise keeps promising spectacle creates an unsettling gap that does more thematic work than any dialogue could—it's restraint as the actual technique.