300 years in the future, a forensic accountant reviews the video stream from one mercenary's drop-pod which has been damaged during the initial stages of a colonial invasion.
Direction
Peek squeezes blockbuster-scale dread into 14 minutes.
Editing
Glitchy intercutting between combat and sterile analysis.
Sound
Radio chatter that becomes its own horror language.
Director
Ferand Peek
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Ferand Peek made this as a proof-of-concept for a feature that never materialized, leaving this as a brutally complete standalone.
The 'forensic accountant' framing deliberately mirrors how actual military after-action reports sanitize violence into spreadsheets—Peek worked with veterans to nail the jargon.