Carface

2015 · 4m · Canada

Directed by Claude Cloutier

Genres: animation, musical, satire

Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal

A singing 1957 Chevrolet leads a chorus of dancing cars in a satire of oil-driven complacency.

Picked by Felix

The scouts

A singing Chevrolet preaching oil-drunk gospel while its metal choir dances—this is the kind of premise that makes you actually laugh at the absurdity of what you're watching, and Cloutier commits to it without winking, which is exactly when satire lands hardest.

Felix

The film's lineage is clear—positioned in the tradition of Busby Berkeley grotesque and mid-century industrial propaganda parody—and the choreography of inanimate objects achieves a formal rigor that elevates what could have been a one-joke concept into something architecturally composed.

Margot

The choice to give the lead car an actual singing voice—earnest, slightly off, committed—is what transforms this from sketch into something that sticks; that vocal performance carries the entire satire on its shoulders and makes you believe in the absurdity completely.

Zoe