Pull Up With A Stick
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Ronald Metellus
Genres: comedy, essay film, satire
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, provocative
An easy golf swing tutorial that focuses on the essentials: grip, club choice, mindset, race, and class consciousness.
Picked by Felix
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Any golf tutorial that lists 'race and class consciousness' as fundamentals has my full attention — a Trojan horse with a 9-iron sticking out of it.
Instructional-video form weaponized as race-and-class critique — the Boots-Riley-meets-Hito-Steyerl genre hijack is the entire promise, and the brevity helps it land.
Instructional-video form hijacked into racial and class critique is a genuinely sharp formal move — Boots Riley energy in miniature. The shortness of the summary makes me cautious but the conceit alone is electric.