Big Money Flicks
2021 · 13m
Directed by Michael Bernieri
Genres: comedy, experimental, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A screenwriter tries to pitch his script to an egotistical producer whose office operates as a bizarre power-play theater where everyone is too busy doing nothing to see him. An absurdist Hollywood satire delivered with madcap energy and intentionally disorienting editing.
Picked by Felix
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Hollywood satire that actually uses its form as the satire — the disorienting editing IS the desperation of pitching. Smart and annoying in the best way.
The pitch-meeting-as-purgatory is among the most worn-in shorts subgenres — Robert Altman did it definitively, and absurdist satire on producer egotism has to clear a high bar to feel fresh.
Editing mirrors the protagonist's disorientation — deliberately scrambled to put the viewer inside the pitching nightmare. That formal-design-as-character-experience approach with Tynan DeLong as the avoidant boss is a strong satire bet.