Lasagna Run
2026 · 3m · Canada
Directed by James Livitski
Genres: comedy, fantasy, surrealism
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
An anxious woman's frantic dash to deliver a homemade lasagna to a neighborhood potluck spirals into a surreal odyssey through strange landscapes.
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Finally—someone took the most banal social obligation (potluck delivery) and yanked it into genuine strangeness instead of just winking at the audience about how quirky anxiety is. Livitski gets that the surreal *works* when it's totally indifferent to whether you find it cute.
The film's formal architecture—escalating chaos contained within rigorous 3-minute constraints—shows craft awareness of slapstick lineage (Keaton, Tati) filtered through contemporary absurdist sensibility, though the surrealism sometimes risks overwhelming the disciplined timing underneath.
The decision to keep the lasagna itself *present* as physical comedy object throughout the descent is what sells the whole thing; it grounds the surrealism in something tactile enough that you feel the stakes, and that one choice elevates what could've been generic nightmare-logic into something genuinely disorienting and funny.
Reviews
James Livitski's food based anxiety comedy Lasagna Run will make a very good case for that assertion. Its short three-minute runtime works in its favour (it could so easily be a music video) and leaves you wanting more, like its protagonist might hope for her lasagna.