Teletubbies
Strangeland

All hail the new flesh.

The Teletubbies are said to be a carefree children's program. However, I've always found it unsettling, even in its original form.
Upon viewing this novel version, I got scared out of my wits.

This short film, or rather very short (6 and a half minutes), in summary, feels like David Lynch directed the show his way.
There is no storyline; each scene stands on its own, in a whirlwind of schizophrenic incoherence, sickly deconstruction, paranoid illogicality.

As if it were a parallel world, or a nemesis of the real one. Empirical, in this regard, is the fact that the colors are inverted. As if to emphasize the antithesis.
Some scenes seem shot in reverse, only to naturally connect with the forward ones.

There are no dialogues, the work rejects the concept of language, as if to prove that messages can pass without resorting to words.
The whole course of the video is supported by a dark ambient soundtrack that chills the blood, through various cuts and sudden changes in atmosphere. Even the parts where the background is on the brink of calm, ethereal, are disturbing (in line with what happens), when the mood intensifies and gains in volume and compactness, you will have nothing else to do but shiver.
The once friendly Teletubbies here face a collective neurosis. They run and crawl lethally, as if they were fleeing from something, something that is actually in their minds. You can run as much as you want, but it will be useless because what you are fleeing from is yourself.
They perform incongruous actions, almost as if telepathically controlled by a superior sadistic entity, which delights in seeing its puppets forced to take part in a game that will lead to their psychological and moral destruction. Puppets that were once conscious living beings. Your providence is mine. Your providence is me.
In the midst of this sick, dark trip, the idea of inserting images of ordinary human daily life is brilliant, suitably hidden in a layer of psychedelic coloring that makes the flow seamless. In a world that knows no logic and normality, that knows no sensory peace, where man is on par with everyone else, in this cathartic imaginary. Divine allegory?

But the absolute protagonist of this masterpiece is undoubtedly The Box.
It appears from nowhere, practically at the beginning of the short film, and we are not given any information about its real story and purpose. It is there, it exists, in the midst of the void of the uncontaminated landscape. We don't know where it comes from or what it is for, much less what it contains.
Could it have the same function and significance as the enigmatic monolith protagonist of "2001: A Space Odyssey"? All of this will always remain unknown.

In truth, our reckless heroes attempted to grasp its essence. One scene shows the box open, and the Teletubbies writhing on the ground around it, overwhelmed by some kind of crisis unknown to modern medicine. It could be some sort of modern Pandora's box, containing something that humanity will never be able to comprehend. It could contain the meaning of life, as well as the entire flow of time: uncontainable, unbearable for our mind. You become aware of it, see it projected in your consciousness, and you can only go insane.
All of this refers to the possible religious meaning behind this video. Could that box contain God?

Thus it is quoted, indeed, in Exodus 33:20, where God himself says:
“You cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”

But in the end, humanity will never know the truth.
The Box will exist forever, and with it, its unbearable secret...