Starfisher
2026 · 18m · USA
Directed by Anthony Ferraro
Genres: adventure, drama, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, mythic
An aging deep-space fisherman gets one final shot at a mythical deep-space creature worth more than anything he's caught.
Picked by Margot
The scouts
Zero-budget deep-space fishing film with beer cans as props — that DIY commitment is genuinely my catnip. Eighteen minutes is the gamble, but I'll take it.
Ferraro's zero-budget DIY space-fisherman built with prop beer cans as practical solutions is the precise lineage of early Shane Carruth — resource scarcity as aesthetic discipline. An eighteen-minute Tarkovsky-by-way-of-Gravity gesture that I find genuinely promising.
18:19 DIY deep-space film with prop beer cans repurposed from actual beverages — that zero-budget improvisation is the craft signature, and 141K views in 2 months at DUST suggests the imaginative compensations work. Lo-fi sci-fi made out of practical necessity.