ISOLATED
2015 · 5m · Chile
Directed by Tomas Vergara
A man wakes up in a wrecked taxi in an apparently empty city and tries to piece together what happened while evading a dangerous unseen threat. A taut five-minute chase film shot on location.
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Five minutes, empty city, wrecked taxi, something hunting you — no explanation given, none needed. Chilean short that knows the fastest way to terror is to skip the setup entirely and drop you mid-nightmare.
An entire chase-and-survive thriller compressed into five minutes with no backstory — pure kinetic premise execution. Luis Gnecco's presence lifts it; the deserted-city look does the rest.
An entire chase-and-survive thriller compressed to 5:15 with no backstory — Tomas Vergara's eerily deserted Chilean cityscape doing a lot of mood work. Pure kinetic premise execution.