PSILOCYBES

The scouts

A two-minute shroom comedy sounds like every festival's tired joke, but Bouteillier actually swings for something genuinely unhinged—the absurdism isn't reaching for profundity, it's just committed to the weirdness, which is why it lands when it shouldn't.

The surrealist framework is competent and the whimsy sits in a lineage of absurdist comedy dating back through Švankmajer, though the short's brevity works against the kind of sustained tonal control that would make this a truly considered piece.

Two minutes to sell a hallucinogenic premise lives or dies on a single editorial choice—the cut, the sound design, the specific moment where reality breaks—and Bouteillier's constraint forces exactly that kind of precision that separates a sketch from something that *works*.