Weird and wild, Speed or Perish, directed by the French duo known as Seth Ickerman, captures immediate attention in its first frame and keeps transforming into something truly distinctive. The 8-minute short film, made for the artist Carpenter Brut, is described in its official verbiage thusly: "Conceived as a genuine genre film disguised as a music video, the film plunges the viewer into a dystopian megalopolis where speed is the only religion. A death race pits hybrid man/machine vehicles against each other in a fight to the death, at the heart of an urban environment oversaturated with metal, flesh and pixel. Somewhere between Mad Max and Battle Angel Alita, through a steroid-fuelled 80s aesthetic. "The film is part of an ongoing approach to treating the...
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