Shirt Vile
2019 · 4m · USA
Directed by Drew Angle, Katelyn Douglass
Genres: comedy, documentary, experimental
Tones: absurdist, melancholic, whimsical
A young woman becomes convinced she lived a past life as a Kurt Vile t-shirt and enlists look-alikes to help her reconstruct the metaphysical bond. A mixed-format documentary-adjacent oddity about fandom as reincarnation.
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Three minutes about being a t-shirt in a past life — and it actually breaks your heart. No, really, WATCH this one.
Drew Angle and Katelyn Douglass at their most personal — a fan-portrait disguised as fugitive doc, with the warmth of a Caveh Zahedi essay film and none of the discomfort.
A young woman convinced she lived a past life as a Kurt Vile t-shirt, treated with full sincerity in mixed-format documentary mode — the conceit is so specific it loops back to genuine, and Appalachian panoramas with curly-haired look-alikes is exactly the texture I want.
Reviews
Filled with lovely, mixed-format images... characterized by a haunting melancholy but also warmth.