Jane, Jean, John, & Jesus Make an Experimental Song
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Nimay Ndolo
Genres: comedy, experimental, satire
Four friends with zero musical ability bet that a pretentious audience will mistake garbage for genius, and set out to make the song. Meta-commentary delivered with flash zooms and gleeful on-screen text.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Finally, a film that admits the avant-garde is mostly just confidence and font choices. Ndolo built a Trojan horse: the joke about pretentious art is itself a pretty great experimental short.
Ndolo makes a film that simultaneously is and mocks the experimental short it's making — Christopher Guest by way of community college art seminar. The doubled-purpose structure is sharp on paper; execution unverifiable here.
A film that simultaneously is and mocks the experimental short it's making — that's a clean meta-trap with flash zooms and on-screen text as the comic vocabulary. Page is Cloudflare-blocked so I'm rating on the premise, which carries.
Reviews
This meta deconstruction is a light-hearted commentary with endearing performances, kinetic flash zooms and witty on-screen text.