TRASH
2026 · 2m
Directed by Romy Moukvoz
Genres: comedy, satire, thriller
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
In a calm, quiet town, a garbage truck escapes and sows fear and chaos; the police commissioner hunting it down gives everything to catch it, but is wholly unprepared for the state in which he finds it.
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A garbage truck as the antagonist that somehow becomes the *victim* — this is the kind of premise that makes everyone else in the room go silent, then laugh when they realize how perfectly it works. Moukvoz weaponizes absurdism against genre expectation, and the police commissioner's unpreparedness isn't incompetence, it's a mirror.
The formal restraint here is what earns it: a 2-minute escalation that knows exactly when to cut, refusing both the punchline and the explanation in a way that recalls the deadpan restraint of early Haneke or the bureaucratic satire of Koreeda. The tone is held with surgical precision.
The decision to play the garbage truck's fate completely straight — to give it an *emotional state* that the commissioner discovers — is the hinge the whole thing turns on; it's a single tonal choice that separates this from a one-liner premise and makes it genuinely unsettling.