My Trip to Miami
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Dylan Redford
Genres: comedy, documentary, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A man straps five GoPros to himself and attempts to visit all 315 of TripAdvisor's top Miami attractions in pursuit of influencer glory and a salvaged relationship. The travel vlog format is weaponized against itself.
Picked by Felix
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Anyone willing to ruin a vacation to expose the influencer industrial complex gets my vote. Five GoPros is four too many, which is exactly the point.
Five GoPros, a relationship in shambles, all 315 TripAdvisor attractions — Redford weaponizes the travel-vlog format against itself with Fielderian commitment. The premise is the structure is the indictment.
Five GoPros strapped to one body to hit all 315 of TripAdvisor's top Miami attractions is the kind of premise where the gear choice IS the thesis. Redford weaponizing the travel-vlog format against itself, fake moonlight-hookup splices and all, is high-effort satire I want to see executed.
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As he satirizes the typical self-shot travel video, prying off the genre's presentationally blissful veneer and diving into the hell of actual tourism...