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Humans: Playtime

by Holden Boyles

An experimental comedy survey of 'the ways that humans play', which its makers say is 90 percent accurate.

Format
Short film
Genre
Experimental comedy
Year
2025
Runtime
5 min
Added
2 Nov 2026

Why this film matters

Humans: Playtime treats ordinary human leisure as material for an outsider’s catalogue, and its own one-line description, ending ‘90% accuracy’, signals that the catalogue is meant to be unreliable. The formal question is whether a sequence of comic observations can hold together as a film through tone and framing rather than plot. Its official artwork, with a giant lobster attacking a lawn on the Moon, shows the scale of absurdity it works with.

The Chroma Awards gallery lists it as the first-place winner in Film - Experimental & Open Format in Season 1.

Production evidence

The organiser credits Holden Boyles as director; the release on ambiguous’s channel adds no crew list or synopsis beyond its one line. Exact models, collaborators and budget are unknown. Its narrative structure is not described in the official sources, so this entry characterises it only as an experimental comedy. The journal has not watched the complete film.

Production notebook

What the makers have disclosed. Credits may be partial.

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Credits

The Chroma submission credits Holden Boyles as director and gives Thailand and the United States as its regions. It was released on the channel of ambiguous, a team the channel describes as led by Cody Updegrave, Holden Boyles and Eli Pinkerton; the release itself names no further crew.

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Declared tools

The submission lists Google's Veo/Flow/Gemini family and Adobe Creative Cloud. Model versions and the division of work are not disclosed.

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