Present for future
2021 · 1m · Kyrgyzstan
Directed by Shamir Raiapov
Genres: experimental, fantasy
Amanda walks in the forest, delighting in nature — the stream, a rabbit she wants to hold — until suddenly, a glitch.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
A minute-long pastoral that nose-dives into digital corruption—cute until it isn't—but the glitch premise feels more like a gimmick than a genuine inversion; the whimsy never earns its rupture.
Raiapov taps into a lineage of nature-cinema disruption (Brakhage, experimental video art), and the formal restraint of the one-minute form disciplines what could've been indulgent; the edit between wonder and malfunction shows considered timing.
The single decision that lands here is the sound design at the glitch moment—that specific rupture of the forest's ambient texture into digital noise—which does the philosophical work the premise alone couldn't carry.