Life Movie
2025 · 10m · USA
Directed by Nick Lane
Genres: animation, satire, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
An inept pig-man content creator tries to shoot the movie of a lifetime in a surveillance-state New York where artistic expression is a capital offense. The setbacks are not small.
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A pig-man content creator vs. the surveillance state. If your reaction to that logline is 'no thanks,' you're exactly the audience this film was made to annoy.
Live-action smashed against animation, mutant pig-man protagonist, state-execution-by-algorithm — Lane goes maximalist and earns it. Cyriak's brain crossed with Black Mirror's social-credit dread, funnier and ruder than either.
Mutant pig-man content creator in a surveillance-state NYC where artistic expression is a capital offense, live-action smashed against animation — the worldview is operating at maximum density. Surveillance-drones-as-dragonflies is the kind of detail that tells me the design language is doing real work.
Reviews
The quick pace and textured look between real footage and animation distinguish Lane to a trademark style also observed in his previous film, 'Recovery.'