Light Can't Escape
2025 · 11m · Australia
Directed by Tim Sharp
Genres: comedy, sci-fi, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A renter comes to accept that she shares her apartment with a miniature black hole, a disaster-life metaphor rendered literally in punk black-and-white.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Australian housing affordability is so bad that sharing your unit with a gravitational singularity that consumes all light is apparently just... fine, whatever, the lease is up in March.
Sharp treats a domestic black hole with the resigned mundanity of a mold problem — punk black-and-white Australian absurdism that knows exactly what it is. Tight, weird, well-made.
Miniature black hole as housemate treated with mold-problem mundanity — eleven minutes in punk B&W. The genre-of-one premise either lands as Ducournau-coded body politics or as one-joke, and I'd happily find out.