Ich weiss nicht genau welche psychotropen Substanzen Felix Colgrave da in Benutzung hatte, er scheint aber wenn man sein Gesamtwerk betrachtet sehr gut damit umzugehen:

An exploration of ocean plastic, avatars and adaptive bottom feeders. The musical.

Nu, geht noch etwas Dystopie heute oder langts euch auch grad so?
Falls doch, haette ich hier einen wahnwitzigen Experimental-Short von Jon Uriate & Iker Elorrieta fuer euch:

‘A twirling day’ is conceived as a modern tale about the absurdity of the decisions we can not control, about a fate that plays with us and against which we are predestined to lose. The city is depicted as a character devouring a man, unable to escape from it. The project intends to build a bridge between contemporary computer techniques and past movements such as expressionism and surrealism. Reality, with its trans mutational properties, becomes a distorted mirror through which we rediscover our identity.

Nu, mal Lust auf 22 Minuten Decay vom Allerfeinsten?
Joel Penner und Anna Sigrithur haben sich daran versucht und das ist ganz schoen maechtig auf der Metaebene was da rausgekommen ist, ich ziehe meinen Hut:

A stunning visual exploration of matter in various states of microbial transformation begs fundamental questions about our complicated relationships with other species.

Wrought begins with that universal moment of disappointment: despite all best efforts, our food has gone bad. But instead of turning away in disgust, Wrought zooms in, approaching the usually hidden world of decay with curiosity and stunning time lapse photography. Spoiling dinner leftovers bloom with successions of geometric bacterial colonies. Yeasts churn and froth in the torrential flood of juice leaking from a decaying melon. Cheese is slowly engulfed by carpets of furry, green mould. But, the film asks, would rot by any other name still reek?

In answering this question, Wrought unfolds a larger story about the ways we humans construct categories for the world around us that can be limiting. It explores (and challenges) terms like spoil, ferment, compost and rot as it coaxes audiences to decompose these categories and their associated binaries: self and other, human and non-human, and nature and culture. As the film title implies, we are all forged out of the relationships that transgress such binaries; we are all, indeed, wrought.

Mal einen heftigen Science Fiction Short auf die Aeuglein?
Da haette ich was von Carlo Ballauri mit bei, sehr dystopisch bitter, superknackige Kameraarbeit, fein gemachter Sound:

A boy immobilized on a wheelchair spies other residents in the windows across the courtyard. He convinces himself of spotting an attempted assault on a little girl. Is he preventing a murder? Or is he just not capable of seeing the whole picture?

Namida Sai arbeitet eigentlich als Unity-Entwicklerin und hat ein Faible fuer 2D Stoff und Game Jams.
Und dieses wirklich aussergewoehnliche Dings hat sie fuer den Global Game Jam – May Day Mental Health Jam rausgecoded und das ist ganz fein frustierend geworden und damit gleich den dritten Preis belegt, so soll das:

Fumble is a puzzle game about how it feels to struggle to talk. It tells the story of someone suffering from social anxiety without realising it.
This game was made in 21 days for the Mental Health Game Jam 2022 organised by Deepwell DTx and Global Game Jam. One of the main goals of the jam was to demonstrate how video game themes and mechanics can be utilized as treatment mechanisms.

The gameplay acts as a playable metaphor of social anxiety and offers what we believe is one possible representation of what it feels like to have the condition.
By projecting themselves on the main character, we hope that players might be able to identify their own struggles and seek help if undiagnosed.

Ida Melum praesentiert uns hier einen wunderbaren StopMo mit sehr viel Meta, nicht zu Unrecht hat sie damit 7,8 Punkte bei IMDb abgeraeumt und das muss man erst mal koennen:

When a power outage interrupts a bedtime routine, a young woman is confronted by the ghosts of her past, in Ida Melum’s animation “Night of the Living Dread.”

Richard C. Jones liefert hier in knapp 5 Minuten heftig ab, das zieht, das sticht und ich wuerde das nicht wirklich als Comedy bezeichnen moegen:

Ich war entsetzt.
Vielleicht seid ihr es jetzt auch gleich weil es…

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Nuja, ein wenig Lust auf ein neues Dingsi?
Kriegt ihr:

Schaaftipp: Es benoetigt Batterien.

Heute habe ich euch einen Physik-basierten Plattformer von StuffedWombat rausgesucht, und nein es wundert mich nicht dass dieser unter “Hard Control Games” gefiled wird, denn das ist schon sehr knackig und fuehrt durchaus zu Verzweiflungsschreien in den hoeheren Levels:

Click and hold to swing the ball around your mouse. When ready, release to let go of the ball. Safely get the ball to the blue line.