Six to Six

The scouts

Cohen does the psychedelic motherhood thing everyone's reaching for right now, but the execution is too tasteful, too composed—it's experimental without the nerve to actually break something.

A formally rigorous descent into the liminal space between maternal exhaustion and surrealism; the animation's restraint and pacing create a lineage that feels both contemporary and rooted in experimental animation's meditation on states of mind.

The decision to animate this as a continuous interior drift rather than cut-based narrative is what sells it—that unbroken glide through domestic space becomes the formal engine that makes the budget disappear and the dread accumulate.

Reviews

The familiar surroundings of a new mother take a dark turn in this eerie short by Tel Aviv-based animation director and illustrator Neta Cohen. It is a sort of 'road movie' taking place entirely indoors, pacing along the seam between wakefulness and sleep, reality and imagination, dream and hallucination.