Luma
2017 · 8m · Estados Unidos
Directed by Ben Carland
Genres: fantasy, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
Light has abandoned the world; in a future where sound is disappearing and mysterious predators roam the jungle, a young man flees to carry out an urgent task.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Premise-wise it's doing the apocalypse-sensory-deprivation thing we've seen before, but the execution is so restrained it almost disappears—which is either the point or the problem, and honestly I'm still not sure which.
Carland's visual discipline here sits squarely in the lineage of slow sci-fi and found-sound cinema, though the film's refusal to clarify its own mythology keeps it from achieving the formal inevitability it's reaching for.
The decision to make sound itself the antagonist—letting it drain away until you're hyper-aware of every footfall and breath—is the specific formal move that makes eight minutes of sparse jungle footage feel like genuine peril rather than just another dystopia.