Música para un apartamento y seis percusionistas
2001 · 10m · Suecia
Directed by Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, Ola Simonsson
Genres: comedy, experimental, musical
Tones: absurdist, theatrical, whimsical
Six percussionists carry out a planned musical intervention in a suburban apartment building. When an elderly couple leaves their home, the musicians enter and perform a concert using everyday household objects across the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, and living room.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A planned musical intervention in a suburban apartment—it's the kind of premise that sounds like a joke until you realize it's dead serious, and that tonal whiplash is exactly where the magic lives. Six percussionists turning a kitchen into an orchestra, treating a bathroom tile like an instrument: this is the kind of subversive, genre-resistant nonsense that makes everyone else nervous and makes me certain we're picking it.
The conceptual rigor here—treating the domestic space as a readymade instrument collection—sits squarely in the lineage of John Cage and institutional critique, executed with theatrical precision and formal clarity. A short that knows its own genealogy and wears it with confidence.
The entire film hinges on that single decision to source sound from the apartment itself rather than bring instruments in, and that constraint becomes the generative engine that makes every frame matter. Two directors committing completely to one idea and letting it do all the work—that's the kind of creative discipline that makes a ten-minute film feel inevitable.