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2026 · 2m
Directed by Juliette Strintz
Genres: dark comedy, sci-fi, thriller
Tones: darkly comic, surreal, tense
Two businessmen strike a deal, but the object being traded turns out to be far from a simple piece of technology.
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A two-minute con disguised as a tech deal that peels back to reveal something genuinely unsettling—Strintz refuses to let you land on what genre this actually is, and that refusal is the whole point. The kind of short that makes you immediately want to argue about what you just watched.
Strintz operates within the lineage of sharp-edged European thriller, executing a tightly wound premise with formal control—the reveal lands because every beat before it has been precisely calibrated, and the tonal pivot from business negotiation to something far darker feels earned rather than gimmicky.
The real work happens in what *isn't* shown: the decision to keep the camera locked on the men's faces during the reveal, letting their expressions do the heavy lifting rather than cutting away to explain, transforms a premise that could feel thin into something genuinely disquieting on a shoestring.