Just getting by is okay
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Travis Wood
Genres: experimental, silent
Tones: contemplative, tender, whimsical
A silent Super 8mm black-and-white piece following a costumed space character's first day wandering Brooklyn. He moves through the city making small, gentle connections with strangers.
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Normally I gag at twee — but Wood shoots his space-costume guy on Super 8 and refuses to wink, which somehow earns the warmth. The title alone is a quietly subversive thesis.
Hand-cranked Super 8 B&W silent grammar for a sci-fi character study that refuses genre payoff — Wood works in the Jonas Mekas street-poetry lineage with Miranda July's costume tenderness. Lovely on principle.
Super 8mm black-and-white silent grammar for a space-character's first day in Brooklyn, with zero genre payoff — the format commitment is the whole gesture. Mekas warmth crossed with a Miranda July costume-as-identity move is a calibrated reach.
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A silent experimental film about a space man's first day in Brooklyn that communicates with a gentle playfulness and warmth.