El Mesías #[nn]

A man stands triumphantly atop the raised bucket of a massive orange front-loader, arms spread wide and chains dangling from his wrists, while another figure pilots the machine through a sprawling urban landscape below. Mark Bellido and Wauter Mannaert bring a striking visual tension to this 2017 Vide Cocagne release, pairing gritty industrial machinery with an almost messianic sense of defiance. The bold two-tone palette of blue and rust-orange gives the whole scene an uneasy, cinematic charge that's hard to look away from.