Making Eyes
2016 · 10m · USA
Directed by Sean Dunn
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
An office drone fixates on a woman he keeps clocking on the subway, finally introduces himself, and gets invited to her party. A bathroom encounter detonates whatever fantasy he'd been building.
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The scouts
Hi8 grain doing the heavy lifting that a budget can't. Crush-from-afar narratives are usually saccharine; this one's wired to detonate.
Hi8 grain doing the awkwardness work — Dunn weaponizes 90s home-video texture for a subway-romance going sour. The lo-fi commitment is the aesthetic argument.
Shot on Hi8 camcorder for the 90s home-video grain isn't aesthetic cosplay — it's actually weaponizing the format to amplify the protagonist's creepy Mad Men impressions and shifty presence. The party-then-bathroom-encounter detonation suggests Dunn knows what he's building toward.
Reviews
A distinctive piece of homemade filmmaking that's awkwardly funny and intriguing.