Cupcake
7m · Canada
Directed by Jamie McIntosh, Harry Cepka
Genres: comedy, experimental
Tones: absurdist, melancholic, whimsical
Wormgirl crawls downtown for a treat, oscillating between lonely lockdown despair and tiny bursts of joy. A pandemic-shaped mood piece dressed in a worm costume.
Picked by Felix
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A girl crawling like a worm to get a cupcake is the only honest pandemic film I've seen this decade. The premise is the punchline AND the thesis — beautifully under-explained.
Human-as-worm gait as the entire formal idea — McIntosh and Cepka's pandemic mood piece is Miranda July body-bit weirdness pulled to a sigh's tempo. Strange and complete.
Wormgirl crawls downtown for a treat — human-as-worm gait as the entire formal idea, physical comedy at the speed of a sigh. That's a real conceptual commitment to lockdown's time-bending and seven minutes is the right length.