Sebastian Sommer Releases Short Film Revolver

” Fresh off the sprawling, genre-blending canvas of Dragon (2024), Sebastian Sommer has delivered his most compact work yet—Revolver, a 30-second black-and-white short that feels like both a punch and a pause. In a single scene at a gun range, Sommer condenses cinema into its rawest elements: sound, movement, and time.

There’s no dialogue, no score, no backstory—just the pop and echo of gunfire, each shot fractured by aggressive, almost percussive edits. The setup is deceptively simple: Sommer, alone, aiming straight downrange. But through the cut, the image transforms into something more unsettling and hypnotic, an existential loop disguised as an action beat.

“I wanted to strip away everything that wasn’t essential,” Sommer says. “No metaphor, no commentary—just a moment, distilled.” The approach owes more to minimalist art and experimental film than to conventional short-form storytelling, yet it’s driven by the same kinetic charge as a big-budget action sequence. Sommer cites both Rick Rubin’s philosophy of reduction and the adrenaline style pacing of films like Crank as unlikely twin inspirations.

“I think cinema works best as entertainment. When I watch a movie with my girlfriend the most important thing is that we always want to watch something entertaining Like Shrek.” says Sommer At under a minute, Revolver manages to feel both unflinchingly direct and strangely dreamlike, as if the viewer has stumbled into a fragment of a larger, unseen story. It’s a work that rewards the viewer’s attention and resists their expectations, exactly the kind of move that has defined Sommer’s career so far.
Revolver can be seen here: https://www.shortverse.com/films/revolver-2025