Over by Jorn Threlfall

Over is a short film following a true crime from 2014 where a refugee (hidden in a planes landing gear)fell to his death over London. Shot in reverse chronology, the film begins days after the incident with a lengthy extreme long shot of the road, which cuts away to the morning of the same day where flowers are seen at the roadside marking the site of the incident. As the film progresses details are revealed to the audience through visual cues as there is no (necessary) dialogue throughout. We are introduced to evidence snapshots, interweaved with various stages of the clean-up process. Virtually the whole film is shot from an extreme distance with slight panning movement, always to the right. This disorients the viewer when combined with the camera moving up and down the street so that the audience never really get their bearings until mere minutes from the conclusion.
It could be argued Over makes political statement on the refugee crisis, strongly against the recurrence of issues such as those shown in the short film. As well as this, clear class issues are displayed, the body landing in a pleasant and peaceful neighbourhood and remaining completely unseen for a while thereafter, completely ignored by many passers-by.
Throughout the audience are distanced from the action, the camera is set far back as if we are merely a spectator to the police procedure. The lack of clear narrative forces a greater deal of audience interactivity and engagement. The film uses purely diegetic sound, apart from the dropping body which was presumably CGI and an added sound effect. This shot was incredibly visually striking and also blink-and-you'll-miss-it. You'd expect a climax such as this to be far more drawn out but it is instead almost the shortest and smallest thing to occur in the whole film.
I don't think I'm likely to want to replicate many elements of this film in my own as it is so vastly different and individual in it's style that I struggle to think how a similar effect could be achieved in a different genre or story. It would be very easy to film something like this, but I was just not a huge fan of the style or the film in general, however the sense of mystery it created and the engagement it caused was definitely impressive and worth thinking about.