Driver
2021 · 2m
Directed by Maya Kanoe
Genres: drama, horror, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
A driver is haunted by something on the open road.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Two minutes of a driver haunted on the open road sounds like every tired highway-horror setup—until you actually watch it, and then you realize Kanoe's doing something genuinely perverse with the form that most scouts will miss entirely.
Kanoe understands the grammar of automotive dread as visual tradition, from Vanishing Point through to contemporary psychological thriller—this sits comfortably in that lineage while maintaining formal restraint and compositional clarity throughout.
The entire film pivots on a single sound design choice—what *isn't* there in the silence—that transforms a simple premise about road paranoia into something that feels genuinely destabilizing on a technical level.