Hi I Need To Be Loved
2021 · 11m
Directed by Marnie Ellen Hertzler
Genres: comedy, documentary, experimental
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, humorous
A director recruits actors via Craigslist and has them read from her collection of spam emails in an audition room, attempting to breathe human life into the lifeless, manipulative, and nonsensical digital detritus of the internet.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Craigslist actors performing spam emails. The title is pulled from the spam. The experiment accidentally works. Hertzler is 2-for-2 in this batch.
Marnie Ellen Hertzler (Crestone) having Craigslist actors perform spam emails as Chekhov — that's the right artist for the conceit, and treating phishing copy as a meditation on loneliness is a gentle act of conceptual generosity I respect.
Craigslist actors performing spam emails as if they were Chekhov — Marnie Ellen Hertzler (whose features I respect) using the audition room as found-text theater. The experiment itself becomes the loneliness statement.