The Trickster´s – The Matrix Fan Film
2014 · 4m · Colombia
Directed by Felix Joleanes
Genres: action, fantasy, sci-fi
Tones: surreal, theatrical
A Colombian fan film set in the world of The Matrix follows its characters in a science-fiction action story filmed outside Bogotá. The project brings that world to a local landscape.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A Matrix fan film shot in Bogotá should be a neon-drenched disaster, but instead it's a genuinely subversive move—taking the most corporate sci-fi IP and rooting it in Colombian landscape and bodies feels like hijacking the algorithm itself, which is exactly the kind of irreverent remix the franchise doesn't deserve but can't ignore.
While fan films operate outside the canon, this one demonstrates a formal awareness of the source material's visual language and a measured restraint in how it translates that vocabulary to unfamiliar terrain—the theatrical surrealism reads as a considered response to The Matrix's own aesthetic lineage rather than mere imitation.
The singular choice here is architectural: transplanting the hyperreal geometry of The Matrix into the actual landscape outside Bogotá creates a collision that shouldn't work on a YouTube budget, but the decision to let the real location do the philosophical heavy lifting—making the local world *become* the simulation—is what makes it land.