Montenegro

The scouts

A 2013 animated absurdist comedy that somehow manages to be melancholic *and* darkly funny without ever winking at the audience—the kind of structural gamble that makes most festival programmers nervous and makes Felix insufferable at parties for three years.

Stockler's formal command of the animated form is evident in how deliberately the piece sits between genres, refusing easy categorization while maintaining rigorous control over tone and pacing throughout.

The decision to anchor an experimental premise in genuine emotional weight—letting the absurdism breathe without underlining it—is what transforms this from a clever concept into something that actually lands.

Reviews

it's an impressive example of making more with hand-drawn less.