AMIS: Crash

“Crash” for AMIS opens on a de-saturated, darkly lit shot of an office interior. A solitary, fatigued executive labors quietly over paperwork, accompanied by only the faint ticking of a wall clock marking the increasingly late hour. Suddenly, the executive is smashed into his desk with the force of a head-on collision. Glass, papers and objects go flying on impact. Time slows for a split second as the executive’s body heaves forward before coming to rest lifelessly on the now-decimated desktop. Saiz’s unflinching camera remains trained on the devastating tableau until slowly dissolving to a stark white-on-black graphic: “7 of 10 accidents occur when you are thinking of something else.”