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The scouts

A premise that actually makes you stop and think—everyone as a black hole, proximity as erasure—it's the kind of inversion that should feel gimmicky but doesn't, and the surrealist execution refuses to explain itself, which is exactly right.

Formally ambitious in its commitment to visual abstraction, though it risks losing the philosophical weight of its metaphor in pure experimentation; the lineage is Tarkovsky-adjacent, but it doesn't quite earn the meditative patience it demands.

The decision to render disappearance through negative space rather than explicit effect work is what sells this—that restraint, that trust in what you *don't* show, transforms a sci-fi conceit into something actually unsettling on a small budget.