In the 2016 short film Scavengers, a spaceship explodes, the fiery debris raining down on an inhospitable alien planet. On the surface, two survivors wordlessly interact with the strange flora and fauna, turning spores into binoculars and alien intestines into jet fuel. It’s a bizarrely beautiful symphony of images and sounds, condensed into what feels like an eight-minute fever dream. And animator Joe Bennett, who wrote and directed Scavengers with Charles Huettner, wanted to preserve the fever-dream feeling of the original short in their adaptation of the story into a full-fledged TV series — including the lack of dialogue.
