A pair of defiant motorbike couriers speed though a near-future world of self-driving vehicles and state surveillance in a light-on-narrative but darkly atmospheric proof of concept showcase for a larger project by Joe Sill and Matisse Tolin. Sill sez of if:

We’ve had the story outline and bible for a long-format version of this project for some time now, and early in the pandemic we dusted it off and began to wonder what a short film excerpt of it would look like…

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