Consistency
2026 · 2m
Directed by Marc de Panda
Tones: absurdist, melancholic
Alec, a telemarketer, has been trying for twenty years to get back in touch with his ex-girlfriend — whether he will succeed, and whether he was right to persist, may be the reward of stubbornness.
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Twenty years of telemarketing persistence chasing a ghost is either the saddest or funniest premise I've heard all week, and de Panda somehow makes it both without winking—that refusal to pick a lane is genuinely rare.
The tonal balance between melancholic and absurdist feels earned rather than affected, situating itself in a lineage of character-driven shorts that trust ambiguity over resolution.
There's a single choice buried in here—whether it's the editing rhythm of those twenty years collapsing, or a performance beat in the final call—that transforms 'guy won't let go' from pathetic into something that actually matters, and I need to see which one it is.