Circus 196977
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Jinho Myung
Genres: experimental, horror, musical
Tones: dark, surreal, theatrical
A raggedy circus troupe is stranded in Walpole, Maine after a train crash. A documentarian finds them in a barn and films what might be a performance, might be a haunting.
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The scouts
Stranded circus performers in a Maine barn, pop music, dance, and found-footage menace. If this sounds like a film school dare, good — that's where the interesting work lives.
Jinho Myung crashes found-footage horror grammar into avant-garde dance and stages it all in a barn — Lanthimos by way of Holy Motors. The premise is the experience.
A documentarian finding a stranded circus troupe in a Maine barn, marrying found-footage horror grammar to avant-garde dance — that genre-collision is ambitious and the barn location is rich.
Reviews
Bridges elements of an eerie found-footage style horror film with a uniquely choreographed performance piece.