Harbor Island
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Calvin Lee Reeder
Genres: dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, melancholic, surreal
A van-dwelling comedian wanders the industrial wastelands of Seattle's Harbor Island at night, recording awkward standup into the void until isolation conjures a reverse-mortgage lender and a suicidal man.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Josh Fadem doing jokes into the dark for nobody at a Seattle industrial port — Calvin Lee Reeder's instincts toward beautifully bleak Americana never miss. Add it before someone safer scoops it up.
Calvin Lee Reeder doing nightwalker standup at the edge of a Lynchian industrial park — the bit is the loneliness. Josh Fadem performing to nobody is exactly the formal gesture this needs.
Josh Fadem doing standup into the void of Seattle's industrial zone is a premise that lives or dies on performance and ambient sound, and Reeder usually delivers both. The 'open mic crowd of zero' nightwalk is exactly the kind of formal premise I trust.