MY UNCLE
2022 · 11m · USA
Directed by Babbling Brook
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, tender
A film by the enigmatic Vimeo collective Babbling Brook, MY UNCLE is an intimate, formally spare portrait of a familial relationship — what exactly transpires between nephew and uncle is left to texture, performance, and implication rather than explicit narrative.
Picked by Felix
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A film titled 'MY UNCLE' that tells you nothing about who or what the uncle actually is — that withholding is the whole point, and I respect the audacity.
Babbling Brook is the Atkins/Skelton/Daniel Johnson orbit and the cast credit alone tells you this is the same downtown-LA observational tendency working in a different mode. Stripped of plot, leaning entirely on performance and texture — I want to see what it's doing.
A Babbling Brook collective film (Harrison Atkins, Kati Skelton, Daniel Johnson) running on observational mode and implication rather than plot — at 11 minutes that's a real bet on performance and texture. The collective's track record carries it.