LACY_audition.tape_cocktailvilla.mp4
2024 · 10m · UK
Directed by Pervers3cowgirls
Genres: comedy, mystery, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
Lacy, a self-anointed scenester past her prime, films an audition tape for Cocktail Villa — an alleged influencer reality show — flexing her rapping, acting, and hostessing across the local mall and the ends. Familiar faces from her past keep puncturing her delusions of stardom.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
The title is a filename and that's already more committed satire than most influencer-culture shorts manage in twenty minutes. Sakari is genuinely funny, and the UK mall setting saves it from LA-scenester cliche.
Pervers3cowgirls building a vertical-video audition-tape mockumentary as a single .mp4-filename artifact — Ingrid Goes West as a UK mall-rat sketch. The form-as-found-object gambit is the kind of chronically online formalism I find genuinely sharp.
The vertical-video, .mp4-filename-as-title artifact framing is the formal commitment that elevates this above just-another-influencer-satire — Pervers3cowgirls treating the audition tape as the entire object. Mall-and-the-ends specificity gives the UK setting bite.
Reviews
Abigail Sakari's performance as someone trying to center herself and obtain stardom despite being past her prime is hilarious and commendable.