Dolphin Boy
2025 · 11m
Directed by Arielle Bordow, Tyler Zonies
Genres: comedy, fantasy, horror
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
A man finds a woman washed up on shore, discovers her identity, and goes to great lengths — including body horror — to become part of her world, in a lo-fi fantasy played with deadpan campiness.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Lo-fi Little Mermaid but with body horror and the directors star in it themselves. This is what longing looks like when you don't have the budget to hide it.
A lo-fi Little Mermaid with body horror, shot on Betacam, directors cast themselves as the leads — that combination of deadpan camp and longing is a known and beloved register, and the commitment of self-casting is half the charm.
Shot on Betacam, lo-fi Little Mermaid body-horror riff with the directors as leads — the medium, deadpan campiness, and the bloodshot 'fucked-up eyes' detail all hint at a real handmade sensibility. Curious.