The Length of Your Rage
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Juan Pablo Rivera Garza, Charlie Sosnick
Tones: absurdist, humorous, melancholic
After fighting with his boyfriend, Thomas walks the length of Manhattan to burn off his fury, leaning on an Inuit notion that rage dissolves over distance. The trip up the island gets derailed by electric skateboards, pizza employees, tourists, and eventually an absurdist musical number.
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A breakup walk that turns into a folkloric endurance test, then crash-lands into a song-and-dance number. That's the kind of structural rudeness I show up for.
An Inuit anger-management ritual repurposed as a Manhattan walking pilgrimage that climaxes in a flashback musical sequence is the kind of ambitious tonal collision I want shorts attempting. Rivera Garza and Sosnick swing big.
Inuit walking-it-off ritual repurposed as a Manhattan length-of-island pilgrimage that climaxes in a musical number is structurally ambitious for a comedy short — the grind-line confession opening sets the tonal bar high. Charmingly ragged in the good way.