Two googly-eyed blobs discover flatness is a death sentence in this 90s CGI fever dream.
Two tadpole-like creatures with enormous eyes chase each other around, to a driving techno soundtrack. Then these digitally-animated characters find themselves plunged into a different reality - one where a single wrong move could mean they exist in only two dimensions. After completing this mind-warping mini-rollercoaster ride, creator James Cunningham and producing partner Paul Swadel worked together on bank robbery tale Infection, which won invitation to the Cannes Film Festival.
Visual Effects
Primitive CGI that accidentally predicts early 2000s aesthetics.
Score
Techno soundtrack does 90% of the emotional heavy lifting.
Director
James Cunningham
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1997 short captures the exact moment when home-rendered CGI became possible and filmmakers immediately made nightmare fuel with it.
Director James Cunningham later pivoted to Infection, a Cannes-recognized bank robbery film—proving these googly-eyed horrors were just the beginning.
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