Bruce Gallagan
2023 · 13m
Directed by Pau Perramon
Genres: action, adventure, sci-fi
Tones: theatrical, whimsical
A galactic spy and his sidekick race to recover a stolen crystal artifact on an isolated planet where everything is possible.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A galactic spy heist with everything-is-possible stakes sounds like it should be bloated, but Perramon seems almost *bored* by the genre conventions—the whimsy feels like resistance rather than flavor, which is interesting enough to watch.
The theatrical tone sits uneasily against sci-fi action scaffolding, and while that tension has potential, the film doesn't quite commit to either tradition hard enough to land with formal conviction.
Thirteen minutes to sell an 'anything is possible' world on what's clearly a modest budget—the real pick here is whether Perramon found one visual or sonic choice that makes the constraint feel like liberation rather than compromise.