Enough
2017 · 2m · United Kingdom
Directed by Anna Mantzaris
Genres: animation, dark comedy, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Residents of a grey city have finally had enough of the mundane stresses of normal life, and their suppressed impulses erupt into moments of emotional anarchy and lost self-control.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A two-minute animation that actually earns its anarchic premise—the suppressed-impulses-erupt-into-chaos angle could be treacle, but Mantzaris uses the grey city and absurdist tone to subvert every audience expectation about what "emotional release" looks like. This is the kind of genre-bender that sneaks past the tired premise and lands somewhere genuinely unsettling.
Mantzaris demonstrates precise control over the satire's formal register, threading dark comedy through a visual language that recalls both expressionist animation tradition and contemporary political allegory. The compressed runtime and restrained color palette suggest a filmmaker acutely aware of how economy of form amplifies thematic weight.
The singular choice here is the decision to keep the city itself grey and static while the residents' eruptions of chaos become the only visual language—it transforms what could've been a conventional premise into something that *feels* like watching pressure valves fail in real time. That restraint in the environment makes every moment of anarchy land harder.