delivery
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by Tynan DeLong
Genres: comedy
Tones: absurdist, humorous, tender
An aspiring news anchor recruits a delivery guy to help her shoot an audition tape. A tiny stakes-zero negotiation that DeLong somehow makes feel urgent.
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DeLong makes a feature's worth of stakes out of a woman asking a delivery guy for one favor. Most short comedies confuse small for slight — this one knows the difference.
DeLong makes a real-time micro-favor — audition-tape shoot — feel urgent at zero stakes. The escalation is gentle and the empathy carries it. Tidy.
A real-time micro-favor escalating into creative partnership — Tynan DeLong's stakes-zero negotiation about an audition tape is the kind of small DeLong piece that lives or dies on the rhythm of the ask.
Reviews
Another quick hitter comedy, true to form, absurd but embedded with empathy for its characters engaged in a minute-by-minute struggle to accomplish small goals.