ouchiemongo
2015 · 14m · USA
Directed by Corey Hughes
Genres: comedy, experimental
Tones: absurdist, melancholic, surreal
A slapstick comedy in super slow motion following an injured tourist with a leg injury on a week-long Carnival cruise from Baltimore to the Bahamas, searching for physical and spiritual healing; the film drifts between narrative, documentary, and experimental modes, generating an atmosphere of weightless, nauseating surreality.
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The scouts
A man with a leg injury goes on a Carnival cruise for spiritual healing. Filmed in super slow motion. Won Best Experimental at NoBudge 2016. The slapstick is the transcendence. Corey Hughes understands something about the body in pain that I can't articulate but you will feel immediately.
NoBudge Best Experimental Film, super-slow-motion slapstick on a Carnival cruise where injury becomes spiritual searching — Corey Hughes finding Albert Serra's Birdsong drift on a cruise ship is a genuinely original formal position.
Slapstick comedy in super slow-motion on a Carnival cruise from Baltimore to the Bahamas, an injured tourist searching for spiritual healing — won NoBudge's 2016 Best Experimental Film. The speed choice is the whole craft argument.