

Five minutes. One man. Infinite existential dread. You in?
Direction
Kayven Kaplan packs a feature's worth of unease into 5 minutes.
Editing
Rapid-fire cuts mirror the protagonist's fractured psyche.
Practical Effects
Tangible world-building without blockbuster budget bloat.

Director
Kayven Kaplan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
At 5 minutes, 'Core' is shorter than most trailers — yet competed in festival circuits typically reserved for feature-length dramas.
The zero-vote TMDB page reads like conceptual art itself: a film about erasure, digitally erased.