Slow Vine
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Glenn Fellman
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, humorous, whimsical
Absurdist vignettes about ordinary people doing ordinary-adjacent things, each one capped with a title card that retroactively rewrites what you just watched. Minimalist sketch comedy that takes its sweet time getting to the joke.
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The scouts
Sketch comedy where the title card does the joke — sounds insufferable, plays like a slow exhale. The patience is the form.
Vignette-driven quotidian surrealism that owes a debt to Quentin Dupieux's smaller films — the patience is its principal virtue, and that's harder than it looks.
Each sketch retroactively reframed by a title card — the punchline-as-context conceit is a real structural idea and the cast (Mohammed, Marovitch, Dai) can deliver it.
Reviews
Clever, bizarre, even occasionally touching... a refreshingly slow-paced, minimalist take on sketch comedy.