DX350
2026 · 10m · Australia
Directed by Pat Mooney
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tense
Elena's iPod starts transmitting a distorted voice from somewhere it shouldn't, and she carries that interference into a coffee date and a movie outing with a friend. A small drama about the static between people.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Picking an iPod as the cursed object in 2026 — that's the kind of specificity I trust. Most ghost stories phone it in; this one click-wheels.
An iPod as haunted object, the dread routed through obsolete tech — Mooney crosses early Sofia Coppola pacing with Pontypool unease, and the 16mm silvering does the rest. Quietly excellent.
Silvery 16mm with an iPod classic as haunted object — routing dread through obsolete tech instead of a phone is a sharper choice than it sounds. The static between people made literal in the headphones.