Date Night Look
2021 · 12m · USA
Directed by Wesley Wingo
Tones: dark, melancholic, tense
A troubled young woman pulls herself together for a date at a Tiki bar, and as the evening unfolds, disturbing elements of body horror and glitchy soundscapes reveal the depth of her crisis. A pitch-black tone piece about desperate youth.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Date night at a Tiki bar becomes body horror. The mundane setting makes the horror worse, not better. The glitchy soundscapes are doing more work than most feature films.
Wesley Wingo's pitch-black tiki-bar tone piece with glitchy soundscapes and body-horror flashes is in the Jennifer Reeder lineage of mood-as-text shorts — risky but the descriptor sounds disciplined.
Body horror and glitchy audio intruding on an otherwise ordinary date-night Tiki bar scenario — the ER horror story about a man installing a Bluetooth transmitter into his own hand becoming unexpectedly relevant is a strong genre pivot.