CHASING TIME
2024 · 1m
Directed by Si Yi Lee, Ayla Kasimova
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal
Run!! Time never stop, and she can never stop!
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A one-minute sprint that collapses time anxiety into pure kinetic desperation—it's the kind of formally slight premise that could've been a greeting card, but instead it commits to the bit like a fever dream. Respect the restraint.
The compressed duration and surreal tone gesture toward experimental cinema's traditions, though the execution feels more instinctual than architecturally considered; a sketch rather than a finished formal argument.
That single edit choice—the rhythm of cuts synced to the panic of movement—is what sells the entire premise; it's a film that understands one minute means every frame has to *move*, and it does.