At Peace
2023 · 1m
Directed by Chun Kit Fong
Genres: comedy
A passenger faces the struggle of getting to the bathroom on a plane.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A one-minute film about bathroom desperation on a plane sounds like the kind of premise everyone else would pass on—which is exactly why it works. Fong strips comedy down to its most absurdist, bodily core and refuses to apologize for it.
The constraint of the format—one minute, a single location, a universal physical comedy—recalls the precision of early Tati, though the film doesn't quite achieve that deliberate spatial mastery; it's more sketch than considered composition.
What sells this isn't the premise but the specific choice to sustain the bit through pure physicality and passenger reaction shots, turning a bathroom emergency into an ensemble study in collective discomfort with almost no dialogue.