Interior Night
2022 · 14m
Directed by Adam Bernet, Rob Price
Genres: drama, experimental, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, surreal
A man drifting through a video-game-like unreality tries to remember he needs to get home for his anniversary while dreaming of another man with the same problem. A surreal portrait of dissociation where the film's deliberately stilted logic mirrors the protagonist's fog.
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Two men having the same dream of being lost at work simultaneously — the film commits so hard to its own fogginess that it becomes hypnotic rather than frustrating.
Video-game-world-as-marriage-allegory is a Charlie Kaufman conceit; Bernet and Price seem to take the game logic seriously rather than as set-dressing.
Treats navigating a familiar office building as equivalent in difficulty to traversing a video game world — Bernet and Price's surreal dissociation portrait where the stilted logic IS the fog is a real formal idea.