Jumbotron
2025 · 13m
Directed by Jack Solomon
Genres: comedy, experimental, horror
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
Drew gets caught on the dance cam at a hockey game and cannot stop. An unseen announcer compels him to keep performing, and long after leaving the arena, the Jumbotron moment has colonized his mind completely. An absurdist spiral triggered by the most benign form of public participation.
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One dance-cam appearance destroys a man's reality. The horror is that we've all been there — just without the full psychotic break.
Jack Solomon's dance-cam-as-psychological-rupture is a Joel Potrykus-adjacent piece of absurd-comedy-with-horror-undertow; the public-humiliation-as-derangement premise is sturdy.
A Jumbotron appearance functioning as a supernatural possession mechanism — Kafkaesque escalation triggered by the most benign form of public participation, the dance-cam that lingers and lingers and lingers, is a clean premise with a real engine.