Next Stop
2022 · 3m · USA
Directed by Chanel Dupree
Genres: drama, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A woman turns thirty, returns home defeated, and starts seeing things — repeating affirmations while reality splits in half on screen. The birthday from inside the dissociation.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Three minutes about turning thirty, told in split-screen and mantras. Dupree understands that brevity is the only honest response to a milestone you'd rather skip.
Two minutes, split-screen self-passes, affirmations under duress — Dupree compresses a Lynne Ramsay vignette into a TikTok crisis with real formal nerve. The micro-scale is the point.
Three minutes is the right runtime for this — Dupree compressing the turning-thirty dissociation into split-screen meta touches (handing a joint to yourself across the screen!) is exactly the kind of formal economy I want from a vignette. Punchier than its tonal peers.
Reviews
Builds a strong tone and crafts clever details / meta touches.