Short film by a young Villeneuve. One of the nicer gifts of The Almighty Algorithm. You can watch it here:
Spoilers!
I’m glad I saw it on a projector. Not sure if it’s a political statement (e.g. the chandeleir being their elite privilege (a ridiculous idea, untethered to anything ‘real’ or ‘permanent’) following them or one about the human condition and our fraught, parasitic relationationship with nature or just both. We never know how tall the building is: greed is a bottomless pit. This was years before Sicario and Dune and you can just see Villeneuve’s ease with and penchant for creating huge atmospheres and settings1.
I’m sure there’s a fancier Film Studies way to say this.↩︎