Cartoons from the first half of the 20th century are creepy for a lot of reasons. For one, many of the lead animators in the early days of film had dark senses of humor. Secondly, while cartoons came ...
In the haunting, one-minute short CAGE, U.S.-born Russian immigrant filmmaker Nikita Kibirev distills the creeping dread of America’s authoritarian slide into a looping nightmare. Written, directed, ...