Bite Me
2021 · 14m · USA
Directed by Jessi Rayom
Genres: comedy, documentary
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, humorous
A broke, aimless woman dressed as a hot dog delivers marijuana to a series of strange customers on Halloween night in Los Angeles, drawn from the director's own experiences at a dispensary. Shot documentary-style, a weed delivery night-in-the-life soaked in sardonic wit.
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The scouts
A weed delivery driver in a hot dog costume on Halloween. The premise sounds like a gimmick until the sardonic wit kicks in and you realize nobody is laughing at her.
A Tangerine-adjacent gig-economy ride-along where the hot dog costume is never explained — that uncommented absurdity is the whole formal gesture, and Rayom drawing on her own dispensary nights gives it the texture documentaries can't fake.
Documentary-style hot-dog-suited weed delivery on Halloween, drawn from a real dispensary gig — that combination of costume, vérité texture, and sardonic monotony is a small-budget sweet spot. The unspoken costume is the joke.