Sticky
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Aisha Schliessler
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, surreal, tense
An uninvited houseguest prowls a home that isn't hers, sampling the rooms without getting caught. A stylish little trespass set to a pop-song rendition and left wide open for interpretation.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A stranger rifles through someone else's life and the film refuses to explain itself. Refreshing. I'm tired of shorts that hand you the thesis in the first 30 seconds.
Chantal Akerman by way of a music video director with a key is a specific, almost-rude claim that the domestic-trespass conceit could actually hold. Ambiguity as method, not as alibi — that's the question.
A domestic trespass piece scored to a 'Bang Bang' cover, with a woman licking a cracker and putting it back, is a clean Akerman-meets-music-video pitch. Lives or dies on the texture; pretty thin summary to judge.
Reviews
A stylish experiment — an exploration of a living space inhabited by somebody who doesn't live there.