Milo On The Floor (Slippery When Wet!)
2018 · 9m · USA
Directed by Patrick Lyman
Genres: comedy, experimental
A short film by Chicago-based filmmaker Patrick Lyman, apparently exploring domestic or slapstick physical scenarios — the subtitle's safety-sign absurdism signals a collision of mundane hazard warnings with something more formally strange.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Any film bold enough to include a wet floor warning sign in its own title as a parenthetical has already made a formal argument I want to sit with.
The found-language subtitle is the gesture — the parenthetical reframes the film as a deadpan poem before a single frame plays. With the Vimeo wall up I can't grade the execution, but the conceit is in the right Patrick Lyman / Eyeslicer-orbit register.
The parenthetical subtitle borrowed from a safety sign reframes everything as deadpan found-language poetry — that's a clever framing device, but the page is locked and I can't verify whether the film earns the pitch.