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2019 · 12m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Taryn O'Neill
Genres: drama, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, provocative
Under the gaze of an AI camera system in a future where jobs are scarce and conflict is currency, a live broadcaster working for a dangerous brand suffers a crisis of conscience.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
O'Neill inverts the influencer-dystopia premise by making the real horror not the system but the broadcaster's complicity — it's a sci-fi film that doesn't let you hate the machine and feel clean about it, which is exactly the kind of uncomfortable specificity most scouts would sand down.
The film's formal restraint in depicting surveillance — letting the AI camera become a compositional principle rather than a plot device — places it in conversation with Carpenter and De Palma, though O'Neill's refusal of their stylistic excess is the more demanding gesture.
The entire film pivots on O'Neill's decision to shoot the broadcaster's crisis as a collapse of performance rather than a moment of revelation — watch how the artifice doesn't drop away but fragments, and suddenly a 12-minute film about a dystopian job becomes a study in the exhaustion of maintaining a self.