Amy's House of Art!
2021 · 7m
Directed by Karl Huber
Genres: dark comedy, horror, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
A mockumentary interview follows a cheerful young artist who proudly shows off her work — decorative art pieces she makes out of the people she murders.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally—a short that commits to its obscene premise without winking or hedging, turning the mockumentary into genuine satire by playing it absolutely straight. Every other scout will recoil; that's exactly why this works.
The tonal discipline is admirable, but the film's reliance on shock value over sustained formal invention places it outside the lineage of truly considered dark comedy—it announces its provocations rather than earning them through structure.
The crucial choice here is the cheerfulness itself: by keeping the protagonist's energy buoyant and genuinely proud throughout, Huber avoids the easier path of irony and forces the viewer into actual discomfort instead of detached cleverness.