"Hospital Head Doctor"
2016 · 4m · USA
Directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp
Genres: comedy, experimental
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A short comedic piece from Dean Fleischer-Camp under the title 'Hospital Head Doctor.' Roughly four minutes of his deadpan, observational comedy register applied to a medical-authority premise.
Picked by Felix
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Fleischer-Camp before Marcel ate his career. Four minutes. A title in scare quotes. That's a man making a joke at his own future.
A four-minute Fleischer-Camp miniature from the Marcel the Shell director, working in a register much smaller and stranger than his features suggest, is exactly the kind of pre-fame sketchbook I prize. The Vimeo comments alone vouch for the charm.
Fleischer-Camp working in a four-minute deadpan medical-authority sketch register, well before Marcel — that's curious territory and worth the visit. The Vimeo comments era detail ("may I please know the audio equipment used for this") is its own period charm.