CC
2018 · 14m
Directed by Kailey Spear
Genres: mystery, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
The Cloverhill Nanny agency lends the intelligent device CC to Lena Howard to care for her daughter Adelaida, but something strange happens between Lena and CC that triggers a special investigation.
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CC plays it frustratingly straight—AI nanny, suburban unease, investigate-the-machine thriller—when the real subversion would've been asking whether we *wanted* the device to stay broken.
Spear channels the domestic sci-fi lineage of Carpenter and Haneke with disciplined restraint, letting the formal distance between human and machine do the thematic work that exposition refuses to.
The film's entire tension lives in the single choice to shoot Lena and CC in the same frame without cutting away—that decision to make us hold both presences at once is what transforms a premise into something that actually sticks.