No Problem
1992 · 12m · Canada
Directed by Craig Welch
Genres: animation, dark comedy, drama
Tones: darkly comic, melancholic, surreal
On a rainy, lonely Saturday, an aging bachelor confronts two alter egos determined to sabotage his latest attempt to break a pattern of romantic failure.
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A guy literally arguing with himself about love—it's the kind of high-concept premise that could crater in seconds, but Welch commits to the surrealism without winking, which is exactly when these things get weird enough to matter.
The film's deployment of internal conflict as literal character multiplication sits within a lineage of psychological animation stretching back through Švankmajer, executing the formal constraint with enough restraint that the melancholy lands rather than breaks.
The entire film pivots on a single decision: treating the alter egos not as cartoonish devils but as manifestations with their own weight and voice, which transforms what could've been a gimmick into something genuinely unsettling on a 12-minute budget.