Straight Line
2025 · 12m · USA
Directed by Jack Bensinger
Genres: comedy, experimental, fantasy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, whimsical
A man attempts to walk across New York City in a perfectly straight line while watching out for wizards.
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The wizard disclaimer is doing all the heavy lifting here — the film's entire thesis lives in that parenthetical, and Sam Campbell's cameo confirms this is the correct cinematic neighborhood.
Bensinger's deadpan urban-navigation premise derailed by 'wizards' is exactly the Nathan Fielder / Sam Campbell register — the casual hazard-acknowledgment is the joke. Twelve minutes of perfectly calibrated absurdism.
Bensinger walking NYC in a straight line, watching for wizards — Sarah Sherman and Sam Campbell in the cast is the kind of comedy-roster signal I notice. The wizard caveat is the entire joke and it's a real one.