Just Passing with Dr. Zussman
2017 · 3m · Israel
Directed by Anat Efrati, Yannay Matarasso
Genres: animation, dark comedy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, dark, darkly comic
Another episode of Dr. Zussman's mysterious talk show: who will be the unlucky guest tonight? Surreal late-night TV with unnamed dread.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A graduation project structured as a sinister talk show where the format cheerfully refuses to acknowledge it's terrifying.
Cheerful talk-show conventions as the container for horror-adjacent dread, never broken, never explained — that's the entire formal trick and it's a good one. Three-and-a-half-minute graduation film working in a genuine Švankmajer/Hertzfeldt mode.
Three minutes of horror content shellacked inside a cheerful late-night talk show format — the genre mismatch never resolves, and that refusal is the entire joke. Graduation film with real teeth.