Brain Rot
2026 · 15m
Directed by Jay Villalobos
Genres: experimental, horror, surrealism
Tones: dark, melancholic, surreal
Jessie meets a woman at an arcade and falls in love — unaware her new partner is secretly trying to convert her into a CRT television. A mostly silent lo-fi experimental film using analog video aesthetics to make the transformation feel genuinely uncanny.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
She's trying to turn her girlfriend into a CRT television. I need to know if she succeeds. This is the correct response to that premise.
Jay Villalobos's lonely-girl-loves-a-woman-becoming-a-CRT-television is a David Lynch-meets-David Cronenberg fever dream; lo-fi textures and fragmented storytelling is the right grammar for the image.
The romantic relationship as covert body-horror project — the goal is to literally turn the protagonist into a vintage television set, rendered through warped magnetic-tape memory, 8-bit melodies, black-and-white atmosphere. Lo-fi VHS Lynchian premise I'm fully here for.