corn
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Edy Modica
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tender
A daughter inspects her father's painful foot corn and the visit veers somewhere far weirder than expected. A small intimate moment hijacked by the indignities of bodies.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Edy Modica building a short film around a foot corn is the anti-prestige move I came to NoBudge for. Indie cinema needs more disgusting feet, fewer beautiful sunsets.
Edy Modica leans on the body as anti-glamour — Joanna Arnow's deadpan dropped into a podiatric tableau. Sentiment smuggled in through the most rejected real estate on the human form; I'm intrigued.
Building a tender ten-minute short around foot corn is the kind of bodily-deadpan move I want to root for. Hard to grade craft without a working page, but the premise alone has me leaning in.