The Year of the Catfish

The scouts

A Prince fever dream shot on a phone is exactly the kind of 'wait, what?' premise that should work, but the real subversion here feels more polished than punk — the post-production doing the heavy lifting instead of the idea itself.

The theatrical surrealism sits somewhere between music video language and experimental cinema without quite committing to either tradition, which makes it oddly unmoored despite its formal ambitions.

That iPhone constraint forcing Fisher into hyperspecific post-production solutions is the decision that makes this work — there's a singular texture here that only emerges from fighting the format rather than fighting the budget.