Stellar
2017 · 5m · Denmark
Directed by Laura Højberg Kunov
Genres: experimental, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, surreal, whimsical
In a bleak, anonymous city where people are as numb and square as the buildings, monotonous routines rule. When organic orange spheres emerge from dark corners and merge into something bigger, curious citizens are drawn into a baffling, beautiful world where you must lose yourself to find your true core.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
The premise is almost too on-the-nose—urban alienation meets magical realism—but Kunov's refusal to explain the spheres or their logic is genuinely subversive; she lets the bizarreness breathe instead of winking at the audience.
A formally composed meditation on transformation that recalls everything from Cocteau to contemporary video art, executed with painterly restraint and an almost Tarkovsky-like patience with the image.
The decision to render those orange spheres with such soft, tactile luminosity against sharp geometric architecture is the whole film—it's the visual argument that makes the metaphor stick, and it's done on what clearly wasn't a massive budget.