No Avocados in the Ghetto
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by John Connor Hammond
Genres: comedy, musical, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
Musician Dekunle dances through a supermarket in a sharp suit, flanked by doo-wop backup singers with too-bright smiles. A satirical jab at food deserts dressed up as a giddy musical number.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A protest song that refuses to scowl — instead it tap-dances through the produce aisle in a suit. That's the kind of left-field aggression I respect.
Doo-wop musical staging weaponized against food deserts is a clever conceit, but the description suggests the song-and-dance does the work without enough formal teeth. A sharp idea I'd want to see sharpened further.
Doo-wop musical staging as a critique of food deserts is a clever delivery vehicle, and Dekunle's supermarket dance in a sharp suit promises real visual joy. The page is thin on specifics about how the satire lands, which keeps me from full conviction.