Baking
37m · USA
Directed by Jamie McIntosh, Harry Cepka
Genres: comedy, experimental
Tones: absurdist, melancholic, whimsical
wormgirl bakes blondies under lockdown, narrating the inching back and forth between tiny joys and tiny despairs. It's a quiet sustained study of being a worm in a kitchen.
Picked by Felix
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37 minutes of a person called wormgirl baking blondies during lockdown is exactly the kind of premise that should either be unbearable or transcendent. There's no safe middle here, which is why I want it in the pile.
Thirty-seven minutes committed to wormgirl baking blondies is either Akerman-grade durational study or a YouTube bit overstaying its welcome, and the page won't tell me which. I admire the commitment to the persona; I reserve the right to be wrong about the patience.
Thirty-seven minutes of wormgirl baking blondies sustained with no irony exit is either Akerman-class durational commitment or unwatchable — and I think the wormgirl-as-persona discipline is genuinely interesting. Niche but real.