DOOR ON THE LEFT
2016 · 5m · USA
Directed by Harrison Atkins, Kati Skelton
Genres: comedy, dark comedy, experimental
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, surreal
Five women are trapped in a surreal and purgatorial game show, navigating its absurd rules and mounting existential stakes — a feminist dark comedy about constraint, spectacle, and choice.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Atkins and Skelton team up to put five women in a purgatorial game show with rules no one explains and stakes no one describes. Vimeo Staff Pick. Multiple festival selections. The absurdism is load-bearing — you cannot separate the funny from the trapped.
Five women trapped in a surreal purgatorial game show with never-explained rules — Harrison Atkins and Kati Skelton using game-show form as pure feminist allegory of constraint, with a real festival run behind it. Compact and sharp.
Five women trapped in a purgatorial game show with unexplained rules and consequences — the arbitrary-and-real stakes is the formal idea, IFC Comedy Selects winner. Atkins/Skelton again, which is a good signal.
Festivals
- Maryland Film Festival 2016
- LA Comedy Festival 2016
- Oak Cliff Film Festival 2016
- Lower East Side Film Festival 2016