Production Year

Countries of productions

Belgium, France

Film Type

Short fiction

Directors

Clyde Gates & Gabriel Sanson

Producers

Scum - Clyde Gates, Gabriel Sanson / L’Heure d’été – Lucas Le Postec, Thibault de Gantès / Naoko - Beata Saboova, Vincent Metzinger

Cinematographer

Samuel Esselinckx

Editors

N/A

Sound Designer

Thomas Becka

List of film festival

International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2026 | Glasgow Short Film Festival, 2026

Awards

Jury Special Mention, Glasgow Short Film Festival (2026) | Audience Award Winner, Glasgow Short Film Festival (2026)

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Film Synopsis

Unseen and unacknowledged, a host of angels labour ceaselessly to animate the machines that keep a city running. When they finally attempt to flee their invisible servitude, a citywide blackout follows. A surreal fable about invisible labour, dependency, and what happens when the unseen refuse to remain so.