I'll say this. It's cool to come across a film - short or otherwise - that pretty much entirely defies genre conventions. I guess "experimental" could be its own genre, but even then, you get experimental movies sometimes that are sort of dramas, or sort of fantastical, or that might be vaguely mysterious/thrilling.
Phantom is just colors and confusion and some very jarring editing. It creates a unique fever dream-like atmosphere, but as to why it wants to create a unique fever dream-like atmosphere, I do not know.
Maybe there's one other way to approach it. It's like some kind of psychedelic yoga video, almost like Alejandro Jodorowsky getting really into yoga instead of... whatever that other thing he's weirdly into is. He'd probably make his yoga grosser, though.
I don't know, don't watch Phantom? Like, I have no idea.
Do watch Phantom. I don't know. It experiments and it flashes and it unsettles slightly and it doesn't waste too much time.
The only thing I can say with confidence is that if Phantom was supposed to convince me to take up yoga, it failed miserably.
Eyeball.
