Adam and Joel
2013 · 10m · USA
Directed by Theodore Collatos
Genres: documentary, experimental
Tones: contemplative, humorous
Two friends, one Jewish and one African American, sit drinking beers and eating Combos at 5am, talking through everything — cultural heritage, politics, religion, themselves. The film cuts every two or three seconds for its entire runtime.
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Most films would smooth this conversation into a tidy arc. Collatos shreds it instead, and the shredding is the point.
A sustained jump-cut barrage applied to a hangout conversation — Collatos uses formal aggression in service of friendship, which is Mekas-diary-cut crossed with Slacker drift. The structure is the argument.
Sustained jump-cut barrage applied to a hangout conversation — formal aggression in service of friendship. A cut every 2-3 seconds for the entire runtime is a hell of an editing commitment to a 5am beer-and-Combos conversation about everything.