Spotlight Report Lapsis is a rare pleasure of a film: low budget science fiction that’s well made, thoughtful and funny. Directed by Noah Hutton, with a great, fun performance by Dean Imperial, this is a Kaufman-esque satire that takes a hearty swing at the modern gig economy. Set in some sort of parallel world, the corporation CBLR offers rewards to cable-runners for laying optical fibre through the woods to facilitate quantum computing. Ray (Imperial) is a working class schlub from Queens who wants to help his brother get treatment for a fatigue disease called Omnia. He takes the orientation course, kits up and goes rambling in the outdoors, way out of his comfort zone, where he competes with other cable-runners, including small robots that threaten to steal his income. Using a dodgily-acquired tracking tablet that seems to be conferring him some wild advantages, he discovers the cruel realities of his new job though fellow runner Anna (Madeleine Wise).