OUTLIERS
2010 · 9m · USA
Directed by Lucas Krost
Tones: contemplative, dark, tense
A young woman desperately attempts to escape a city that has been besieged by a lethal virus, navigating the chaos of urban collapse in a race against an unseen but omnipresent biological threat.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
That OUTLIERS was conceived and completed in 48 hours while achieving genuine genre tension and visual ambition makes it an object lesson in how creative constraint can serve rather than diminish formal ambition.
48-hour film festival entry. "End of the World" prescribed theme. Nine minutes. Official Selection Cannes 2010 is the kind of claim that needs verification — and 48-hour productions are exercises, not films. The festival stack is doing PR work.
A 48-hour film festival entry that landed Cannes Official Selection 2010 — the constraint-to-output ratio is impressive on its face. But end-of-the-world virus shorts are a crowded genre and the synopsis doesn't suggest a sharp twist beyond execution.
Festivals
- Cannes Film Festival 2010