Bennifer
2021 · 13m
Directed by Ryan McGlade
Genres: comedy, experimental
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
Jed returns home by canoe after a long absence to find his family situation completely transformed — an absurd homecoming comedy shot on Super 16mm with deadpan bonkers performances.
Picked by Felix
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Man returns home by canoe. Family completely different now. Nobody explains anything. Keith Poulson does deadpan on Super 16mm. This is everything.
Super 16mm, arrival by canoe, family entirely replaced by different people, no acknowledgment — that level of deadpan worldbuilding is the right move for absurdism, and Keith Poulson is a known quantity in this register.
Super 16mm absurdist homecoming starring Keith Poulson as a deadpan orphan arriving by canoe to find his family swapped — the medium and the dryness will carry this or it won't. Trust the format.