My Galactic Twin Galaction
2020 · 7m · Russia
Directed by Sasha Svirsky
Genres: comedy, experimental, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
A hyper-montage meta-story about two twins fighting evil forces taking over the universe, built from 4chan-aesthetics, photo collages and vapourware YouTube videos.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally, someone weaponizing 4chan aesthetics and vapourware YouTube detritus into actual cinema instead of just ironic performance—Svirsky builds a hyper-montage that's genuinely disorienting in a way most experimental shorts are too self-aware to commit to, which is exactly why nobody else would've picked this.
The collage methodology here gestures toward a lineage of found-footage and appropriation art, though the anarchic pacing resists the formal rigor that would elevate this beyond its own aesthetic gimmickry; the craft is deliberately fragmentary rather than considered.
The singular choice is the commitment to the hyper-montage as *structure* rather than flourish—every cut is doing the conceptual work of the narrative, so the film has to earn its absurdism through editing precision, which on a scrapped-together budget using collage and YouTube ephemera is genuinely resourceful.
Reviews
A narrative from Svirsky's universe it may well be, but it rocks the same hyper-montage aesthetic that is uniquely and instantly recognisably his; something akin to the scrambled imagination of a Timothy Leary mixed with the collage animations of Terry Gilliam.