Fake Jazz
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Kevin Luna
Genres: dark comedy, experimental
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
Two chefs drive through the desert while one of them describes his intrusive thoughts in unsparing detail, and the other slowly realizes he can't get out of the car. A road trip narrated by the part of the brain you wish would shut up.
Picked by Felix
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Two-guys-in-a-car shorts are a graveyard, but Luna's car has the wrong guy talking the whole way. The discomfort isn't the punchline; the punchline is that nobody pulls over.
Luna stages a calmly-delivered monologue of intrusive thoughts in a moving vehicle — Dupieux's Wrong territory with Jim Cummings' alarm. The form is dread driving the car.
Whole short structured around a calmly-delivered monologue of intrusive thoughts (what would it be like if I swerved the car into a ditch right now?) in a moving vehicle with two chefs in tall hats — the formal constraint is the joke and the dread at once. Quentin Dupieux territory done right.
Reviews
Darkly funny conversation about uncomfortable (even gruesome) patterns of the mind.