Everything Happens To Me
2018 · 8m · USA
Directed by Greg Hess
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, melancholic
A struggling actor in Los Angeles attends an audition while dealing with personal stress about bills and family obligations. Shot as a single uninterrupted take, the film tracks the emotional toll of chasing an acting career past the point of no return.
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The scouts
A oner about an actor failing an audition is exactly the kind of meta self-flagellation LA deserves. Plus, single-take films usually either work spectacularly or collapse, and both are interesting outcomes.
A single-take LA audition meltdown — Hess earns the gimmick by making the unbroken frame the cage. Painful in the right way.
Eight minutes of a single uninterrupted take through an LA audition meltdown — the runtime/format match is the whole craft proposition. Either the actor sustains it or it's a long eight minutes.
Reviews
A funny and painful glimpse into chasing your dreams well past the point of no return.