Fuck the Crops
2025 · 3m · Norway
Directed by Tobias Frøystad, Tayo Cittadella
Genres: dark comedy, fantasy, horror
Tones: darkly comic, provocative, surreal
A National Geographic-style nature study of a lush forest twists into a bizarre fable where a couple farms humans like crops.
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The scouts
A National Geographic pastiche that suddenly reveals its teeth and inverts the whole nature-doc apparatus into a cannibalistic allegory—this is the kind of premise that makes you wince and laugh simultaneously, and everyone else will be too nervous to champion it, which is exactly why it works.
The formal rigor of the nature study format makes the tonal rupture land with real precision; it's a carefully constructed inversion of documentary authority that sits comfortably alongside the body-horror fables of recent European cinema.
The decision to commit fully to the National Geographic tone before the reveal—the voiceover, the lighting, the pacing—means when the humans-as-crops reveal lands, it doesn't need to punch twice; that single tonal pivot does all the work.
Reviews
What begins as a documentary-esque macro examination of the beauty of a lush forest under dappled sunshine, a pastoral idyll quickly twists into a horny, surreal and darkly humorous fable in Tobias Frøystad and Tayo Cittadella's brilliantly bizarre short. The allegory for labour and exploitation, examining a society that has streamlined people into its grimly efficient practices, is at once absurd and hauntingly direct.