Shoot Your Shot
2021 · 7m
Directed by Joe Anderson, Nadine Vincent
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
A lowly actor goes to great lengths to get another take in an audition.
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The scouts
A premise about an actor begging for another take sounds like every industry in-joke we've already laughed at—but Anderson and Vincent somehow find something genuinely unsettling in the desperation, turning a gimmick into something that actually *unsettles* rather than winks.
The film understands the formal grammar of audition cinema—the cold room, the red light, the power imbalance—and uses restraint to build something that feels architecturally precise, each denial landing harder than the last.
The real move here is the decision to stay locked in on the actor's face through the repetitions rather than cutting to the casting director's reactions; that single formal choice transforms a joke about persistence into something about the architecture of shame.
Reviews
Joe Anderson und Nadine Vincent zeigen im Kurzfilm „Shoot Your Shot“ wie sehr das an einem Darsteller nagen kann. Und wie sehr er unbedingt noch einmal seine Zeilen aufsagen möchte.