The Meteor
2014 · 10m · USA
Directed by Charles Griffin Gibson
Genres: drama, experimental, sci-fi
Tones: contemplative, darkly comic, melancholic
An alt-history mockumentary about a Kansas meteor strike whose green mist gives three random Americans superpowers — strength, invisibility, telepathy — and ruins all of their lives. Found footage with the director voicing every character.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Superhero origin story where the superpower is the saddest thing about you. One guy voices everybody and that's the whole point.
Charles Griffin Gibson voices the entire ensemble in found-footage VO — superhero origin story plays as sad solo monologue. Chronicle on Xanax is exactly right; the formal constraint is the move.
One person voicing the entire ensemble in found-footage VO, so the superhero origin story plays as a sad solo monologue — that's a melancholy formal choice for an alt-history mockumentary and exactly the kind of swing I want.
Reviews
Human aftermath just as destructive as the extraterrestrial impact.