Azurine
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Tynan DeLong
Genres: comedy
Tones: absurdist, humorous, whimsical
A birdhouse repairman gets hired to fix a Brooklyn stoner's birdhouse. The plot is the logline; the joke is the seriousness everyone brings to it.
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Birdhouse-repair-as-service-call comedy — every other Brooklyn short is trying to be about something, and this one is happy to be about a guy with a screwdriver. The restraint is the bit.
DeLong treats birdhouse repair as a credible blue-collar trade — the joke is the seriousness everyone brings to it, and it holds. Slight but well-fitted.
Treating birdhouse repair as a credible blue-collar trade is the joke and the structure — Tynan DeLong's deadpan-craftsman bit can be very funny but the premise is slighter than some of his others.