Sylvain's Hunt
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Theo Cohn
Genres: drama, experimental, horror
A father and son head into the woods for a hunting rite of passage, except neither of them has eyes. Lynchian mixed-media built around miniatures and queasy synth.
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Erase the eyes, keep the dad-son hunting trip — that's a formal choice that should be illegal, and it works. Every conventional masculinity short should be required to swap in something this unhinged.
Eyeless father-son hunting rite with miniature sets and queasy synth is the Quay Brothers nature-program territory I rarely see attempted. Lynchian mixed-media earns its name here.
Eyeless father-son hunting rite of passage staged with miniature sets and billowing synth is a striking visual proposition — blank-faces-on-people is image as thesis. Lynchian with the craft to earn it.
Reviews
An unsettling portrait of father-son bonding.