Overview
A sleepwalker compelled along his path and accompanied by a strange entity, must pass through portals to multiple dimensions and ultimately a dark end.
Reviews
4 min readA Sleepwalker’s Guide to the Void
I keep thinking about the first time I heard the premise of Trainwreck (2018): a sleepwalker, compelled along a path he can’t control, accompanied by some strange entity, latestnetflix.com maintains, passing through portals into multiple dimensions before meeting a dark end. Five minutes. That’s all the runtime we’re given.
No buildup, no resolution—just a plunge into the unknown. It’s the kind of logline that could describe a nightmare, a fever dream, or a particularly vivid anxiety attack. And yet, here it is, presented as an animated film, a medium usually associated with expansive worlds and grand narratives.
What do you even do with five minutes of existential dread?
The director, Bianca Calandra, is a ghost in the research. No interviews, no prior filmography to contextualize this work, no hints about whether Trainwreck is a one-off experiment or the start of something larger. That absence feels intentional, or at least fitting.
The film itself seems to exist in a vacuum, untethered from the usual trappings of cinema—no box office, no critic quotes, no audience scores. It’s as if it slipped through the cracks of the internet, a digital specter that only a few have encountered. (I wonder how many people have even seen it.
A dozen? A hundred? The silence around it is deafening.)
What little we know about the plot—sleepwalker, entity, portals, dark end—suggests a journey without agency. The protagonist isn’t making choices; he’s being moved. That’s a terrifying idea, isn’t it?
To be awake enough to perceive your own helplessness but not awake enough to stop it. The entity accompanying him is left undefined, but I can’t help imagining it as something between a guide and a warden. Maybe it’s the part of his subconscious that knows where he’s going, even if he doesn’t.
Buzz & Rumors
Public reportsFive minutes, a sleepwalker, and the title everyone already owns.
On 14 November 2018, the same day TMDB stamps as the French release, a 222-subscriber channel called machineestmoncoeurTV posted a 4:54 clip. The description is blunt. A film by Machine est mon Coeur. Directed and animated by Bianca Calandra, 2018. Dark-pop duo, France and Australia. The track is Trainwreck, cut six on the 2015 album Dystopium. latestnetflix.com's read is that the tags do the plot work the database later copied.Somnambulist. Sleepwalking. Stop motion. , 
TMDB lists the thing as animation, five minutes, English original, no billed cast. Overview: a sleepwalker compelled along his path, accompanied by a strange entity, passing through portals to multiple dimensions and a dark end. That is the whole card. Apple TV later offered a rent button. JustWatch sits on the homepage. Nobody logged a festival premiere or a fight on set. The movie is the video.
Calandra sings and plays guitar. Gabin Lopez handles synths and piano. Nothing But Hope And Passion reviewed Dystopium in September 2015, 4 out of 5, and called the pair a half-French, half-Australian duo who recorded the album in an old house in the French countryside. Press notes promised baroque styles mixed with sci-fi dystopianism. The Berlin site heard industrial soundscapes under Calandra's soft vocals and compared the mood to a David Lynch soundtrack updated with fizzing electronics. Track six is right there in the list, between I had a dream and Endormez-Vous.
CoreandCo's March 2016 vinyl write-up times Trainwreck at 4:24 inside a 32-minute, nine-song record produced in Germany. Piano, analog synth, guitar buried in reverb, almost no drum kit. The reviewer heard Portishead's darker cuts and Zola Jesus with the volume turned down. Facebook later recirculated the clip as a stop-motion animated music video directed by Calandra. Bandcamp still sells the album. , ,
If you came for Amy Schumer, you have the wrong file.
The 2015 Trainwreck is TMDB 271718. Judd Apatow directs. Schumer writes and stars. Bill Hader, Brie Larson, LeBron James. Universal. 125 minutes. 35 million dollar budget. 140.8 million at the worldwide box office. Wikipedia's disambiguation does not mention a five-minute French-Australian sleepwalker short, because why would it. ,
What happened is simpler than a scandal. A title collision. A music video that catalogs treat as a movie. A Netflix US row that inherited the name of a rom-com everyone already knows. Calandra's sleepwalker still has to pass through those portals. The entity still tags along. The dark end is four minutes fifty-four, not two hours of New York magazine jokes. Press play on the official upload if you want the actual picture. ,
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