Vertiginous (2026)

When Jackie tells his friend Bruno that they might be living in a simulation, Bruno takes the idea surprisingly seriously. As he begins searching for glitches in reality, his ordinary day slowly starts to unravel.

Vertiginous movie poster

VERTIGINOUS, directed by Quentin Dupieux, is basically an hour long animation of the conversations we all have had after watching certain Star Trek episodes or The Matrix, and there’s something about two characters whose animation makes me think of the House of the Dead video games talking about how nothing is real and we’re in a simulation that strikes my funny bone. 

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No real new ideas are presented here, but the animation is somehow mesmerizing, the dialogue is just offbeat enough to be interesting, and there were a couple of chuckle out loud moments. 

With a runtime of barely over an hour, it’s worth a watch. 

VERTIGINOUS screened at Fantastic Fest.