WARNING: This film contains strobe effects which may cause discomfort and/or seizures for those with photosensitive epilepsy.

Tycoon is an upcoming feature length film, presented in abridged form for preview at transmediale 2025.

Los Angeles on the cusp of the 2028 Summer Olympics: a series of devastating livestock viruses have wiped out meat and poultry production across the nation, leaving genetically-modified cockroaches the most viable alternative. Meanwhile, a cockroach infestation of biblical proportions overwhelms the city, triggering a rash of eminent domain abuses. Two grifters languish in its arid, chain-linked centre while they dream up their next big score – though the view from prosperity’s periphery reveals a landscape only made coherent by the intimacies between legitimized and illegitimate forms of celebration and theft, opportunism and evasion. Picaresque fantasies settle uneasily against a grid of exploitation and control granted new vigour by the Olympics and its backdoor bounty. Elsewhere, a mechanic gone-to-ground fails to escape his tail.

Contrapuntal in form, Tycoon brackets cloak-and-dagger narrative ambience with flicker sequences and invented aphorisms, in a montage of suspended time and the mythology of winning.