Difficult Woman
2025 · 2m · USA
Directed by Summer Benowitz
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
A woman is accused of over-narrativizing her life and promptly turns the accusation into another narrative, while a comedian narrates her LA bar argument. Two minutes of meta-self-defense.
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The scouts
Two minutes long, a stand-up narrator hijacking a breakup — that's bravery. Most shorts pad; this one indicts itself before the bartender even shows up.
External stand-up narration laid over a real-time bar fight — Benowitz makes the form the joke in two minutes, which is the right runtime for the conceit. Fleabag with the fourth wall outsourced.
Two minutes of external stand-up narration laid over a real-time LA bar fight — the form is the joke about over-narrativizing. Meta is risky at any length but at 120 seconds it can't outstay its welcome.