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2010 · 7m · Israel
Directed by Tal Haring, Amir Cohn, Nir Berger
Tones: dark, provocative, tense
A man in a violent neighborhood learns that ignoring the cries of others can be a deadly mistake that haunts him even from the safety of his own computer — winner of the 72-hour film competition at Icon TLV 2010, Israel's Festival for Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Made in 72 hours at a horror festival, Haring, Cohn, and Berger don't waste a frame — the decision to make the computer screen the villain before the genre had a vocabulary for that makes this feel genuinely ahead of its moment.
72-hour film comp winner about indifference and digital alienation. Prescient circa 2010, derivative by 2026. The Kuso comp is unhinged.
A 72-hour competition winner using the computer screen as both barrier and undoing — prescient about domestic digital interface as moral failure-site, even at the speed of its making. Sharper than expected.
Festivals
- Icon TLV 2010 (Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Horror Festival) 2010, Winner