Terrible Accident at the Bread Factory
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Drew Angle, Katelyn Douglass
Genres: comedy, dark comedy
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
A coworker fell into the industrial cooking vat and lived — so the bakery throws him a welcome-back party. Twenty-plus employees prep the celebration in a single take while the conversations spiral into confession, conspiracy, and rot.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
One take, twenty-plus bakers, one guy who got cooked and came back. The choreography is so good you stop noticing it, which is the point.
A one-take ensemble built around a workplace mutilation gag — the formal commitment elevates the bit into something closer to a Sturges-style farce by way of mumblecore.
One continuous take with twenty-plus bakery workers crisscrossing through a welcome-back party for a guy who fell in the cooking vat — the choreography IS the joke and that's a giant swing I want to see land.
Reviews
Delivers as an impressive feat of timing and choreography.