Pyschic
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Dana Sorman
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, melancholic
Benji — broke, in debt, working reception while chasing acting and stand-up — sits for a psychic reading that surfaces old traumas and forces her to decide how far she'll go to move on.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Broke comedian goes to a psychic — usually a setup for a punchline, but Sorman writes/directs/stars, which means she's the one being read. That kind of skin in the game I'll pay attention to.
Psychic-as-confessional has potential as a Trojan horse, but the writer/director/star urban-creative-class lane is crowded and the description reads more workmanlike than essential.
Supernatural premise used as a Trojan horse for a writer/director/star interrogating her own creative dead-end — the confronting-an-ex-from-stage detail is exactly specific. Triple-threat work usually means it bleeds.