Swordhaver
2024 · 10m · USA
Directed by Bobby McCoy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
Men turn 26 and make owning a sword their whole personality. A guy in chainmail-over-a-tee drifts through L.A., snapping selfies and ordering McDonald's, very much armed.
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The scouts
The pitch is one sentence and it's perfect: a guy makes owning a sword his entire personality. Any short that names the disease that accurately deserves a watch.
Chainmail-in-the-McDonald's-drive-thru as deadpan character study is a sharper psychological observation than the joke first suggests — Tim Heidecker loneliness in a Renaissance Faire starter pack. Smarter than it looks.
A chainmail-hooded knight ordering McChickens through LA, posing for sword selfies, with a Drake-AI interlude — the deadpan-detachment character study at the right runtime. McCoy's previous work earns trust.
Reviews
Like McCoy's previous work, 'Swordhaver' is a fresh visual experiment filled with natural comedy and feelings of isolation.