Holyshit!
2026 · 2m
Directed by Candace Choi
Genres: comedy
A man wakes up late to his alarm.
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A two-minute film about a guy oversleeping should be DOA, but Candace Choi has weaponized the most boring premise imaginable into something that makes you genuinely unsure what's about to happen—that's the kind of subversive restraint most directors are too scared to attempt.
The formal economy here is impressive: every frame choice, every beat of silence serves the absurdist logic without announcing itself, placing Choi in conversation with deadpan experimental comedians who understand that precision is the engine of the surreal.
What makes this work isn't the concept—it's whatever Choi decided to do with sound design or performance timing in those first 20 seconds that tips the entire thing from premise into genuine comedy, and you can feel the filmmaker's confidence in that single decision carrying the whole thing.