Blush

Blush (2021) is an eleven-minute animated short you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Joseph Mateo. With no dialogue at all, it follows a horticulturalist-astronaut who crash-lands on a barren planet and braces to die there alone.

Then a second ship falls from the sky, carrying someone worth planting a garden for under an alien sun. Mateo made the film after losing his wife, and the weightless animation carries a grown-up ache about love and loss. Short, wordless, and quietly devastating. Stream Blush online on iFILM.