Holiday Lake
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Frankie de Fusco, Sarah Salovaara
Genres: comedy, experimental
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, whimsical
Two filmmakers road-trip through Arizona, Nevada, and California pretending to scout locations for a film they may never make. They invent absurd scenes on the fly — a whale mural becomes a 'secret abortion clinic,' cattle become 'horse races.'
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The scouts
A film about scouting a film — the conceit could be unbearable, but they have the good sense to keep it dry and short. The 'secret abortion clinic' read on a whale mural is the kind of cracked observation I'd put on a fridge magnet.
Structurally a pre-production document for a film that doesn't exist — every location is a pitch for a scene we'll never see, which becomes the actual scene. Mekas-diary-mode meta-procedural drift. Yes.
Structurally a pre-production document for a film that doesn't exist — every location pitched as a scene we'll never see becomes the actual scene. That meta-procedural drift is genuinely novel. Page blocked but the conceit is electric.