Eat My Shit
2015 · 4m · España
Directed by Eduardo Casanova
Tones: darkly comic, provocative
Samantha posted a selfie of her face to Instagram but it was censored and deleted as 'sexual content'; Samantha did not choose to be born this way and is fed up with people laughing.
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The scouts
Casanova takes the most obvious target—Instagram censorship, disability discrimination—and refuses to make it palatable; instead of righteous anger, he gives you grotesque absurdism that makes the viewer complicit in the discomfort, which is exactly where satire should live.
The film's formal restraint—its refusal to aestheticize Samantha's body or wallow in pathos—places it in a lineage of body-horror satire that interrogates the frame itself, though the premise's shock value sometimes outpaces its structural sophistication.
The decision to keep the camera static and direct, letting the performance and the concept do the work rather than cutting or stylizing, transforms what could've been a cheap provocation into something that sits with you precisely because Casanova won't flinch away.