Cat Stickers
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by Joe Bonacci
Genres: comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
Two apartment tenants try to stop a neighbor from plastering cat stickers all over their building. The neighbor denies everything. The stickers keep multiplying.
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The premise is a Craigslist rant. The execution is somehow Pinter. I respect a director who knows that the pettiest grievance contains the entire human condition.
Bonacci treats minor building vandalism with the gravity of a tribunal — Nathan For You's documentary register applied to apartment-grievance theater. Original entry has the better proportions.
Treating minor building vandalism with the gravity of a war crimes tribunal is the right absurdist register for apartment-building micro-politics — Bonacci's premise is tight enough to land.