JANUARY - WHILE GOD WAS IN THE GREEN ROOM
2017 · 4m
Directed by Alan Jensen
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, theatrical
An experimental short in which Rome Davis serves as Master of Ceremonies and Gatekeeper of the Bridge, and Alan Jensen appears as Defeated and Hopeful — a ritualistic passage through winter despair.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
God's in the green room, someone's on a bridge, and the credits list 'Defeated and Hopeful' as a role — that's already a better pitch than 90% of Sundance.
Crediting a performer as 'Defeated and Hopeful' instead of a character name is the right kind of theatrical commitment for a winter ritual piece — Alan Jensen seems to understand mood as proposition rather than decoration.
Four-and-a-half-minute ritualistic short crediting a performer literally as 'Defeated and Hopeful.' That kind of character-name-as-mise-en-scène is fascinating in theory but I genuinely don't know what's happening here.