Sir Isengord and the Theory of the Magnificent Spinning Quanto Quasi Table
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Dylan Mars Greenberg
Genres: comedy, mystery, satire
Tones: absurdist, theatrical, whimsical
A mockumentary about a 19th-century esoteric philosopher whose consciousness was transferred into a black box before his death, now interviewed by contemporary scholars about his theories of anti-motion, quantum tables, and deci-vectors. The eccentrics keep trying to make sense of nonsense and the nonsense keeps almost making sense.
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The scouts
Wait, WHAT? Joe Estevez is in a Dylan Mars Greenberg mockumentary about a philosopher trapped inside a box. The title is the shortest part of the experience.
Mockumentary academic-rediscovery is a Wes Anderson–adjacent register; whether it transcends the joke depends on whether the satire has teeth or just curlicues.
Joe Estevez anchoring a hyper-kinetic mockumentary about quantum furniture and a 19th-century philosopher's consciousness in a black box — the title alone is doing real work and the nonsense-almost-making-sense register is a high-wire act.
Reviews
Playfully absurd, hyper-kinetic, and crammed with comedic repetition and discrepancies.