SHOTGUN
2014 · 13m · USA
Directed by Maverick Moore
Genres: crime, drama, experimental
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical, whimsical
Three rebellious women hit the road in a wild, black-and-white New Wave-inflected joyride that blurs the line between breakup, road trip, and crime spree.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
61 festivals, 17 awards, and it's basically Godard if Godard had been raised on pulp novels and didn't have a problem with fun. Three women, a road, no apologies — this one has business being in any vault that claims to care about short cinema.
Black-and-white New Wave pastiche with 1960s jazz score is exactly the kind of consciously-mischievous-about-its-own-artifice gambit that either lands or curdles into mood-board cinema. Breathless and Bonnie and Clyde are heavy comparisons; the meta wink is the make-or-break.
Self-aware New Wave pastiche in black-and-white with a 1960s jazz score — the artifice is the point. Twelve minutes of mischief, which is exactly the right dose for this kind of riff.
Reviews
I really liked this short from Texas independent filmmaker Maverick Moore.
Festivals
- Festival de Cannes Short Film Corner 2015
- San Francisco Frozen Film Festival 2015, Best Short Film
- Texas Independent Film Festival 2015, Audience Award
- SMU Spring Film Festival 2014, Best Picture, Audience Award