Adult Swim is editing stock footage into horrifying short films
The sanitized, dead-eyed milieu of corporate America will never not be a prime subject for satire, as evidenced by the enduring legacy of comedies like The Office and Office Space. Still, no amount of satire can capture the numbing mundanity of the office better than stock photography, which is, like any corporation, a repository of darkness clad in silk ties and bleached smiles. Comedian Ryan Mazer drew upon that darkness in collaboration with Adult Swim, relying almost exclusively on stock videos to create tiny portraits of despair.