The Removals (2016)

Partthriller partnightmarish examination of the widening gap between originality and technology The Removals imagines where we go from here A secretive nefarious agency seeks to control the culture They do this by covertly staging reproductions of everyday events and by so doing undermining the moments originality and currency Society is then left to puzzle over what might be real and what is fake The agency employs symbolslike the fascists like imperial powers of the pastnotably a red cone to plant their flag upon the moment Two agents Kathryn and Mason exhausted by the toll each removal has taken from them quietly and then overtly set out to undermine the agency Haunting engaging and with a ferocity of vision that calls to mind the cerebral thrillers of Shane Carruth David Lynch or Andrei Tarkovsky Nicholas Rombess directorial debut is a spellbinding new work and apt analogy for the wormhole where modern social communication leads