The Snake That Ate Itself
2018 · 10m · USA
Directed by Kevin Carpio
Genres: drama, experimental, surrealism
Tones: contemplative, dark, surreal
Audrey, a young painter, watches her canvases bleed. She lands on a surreal talk show that won't let her dodge her own subconscious.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Bleeding canvases on a talk show set — finally, a film that admits creative blockage feels exactly that pulpy. Plot coherence is a coward's metric anyway.
Talk-show formatting as unconscious interrogation is a useful frame, but Lynch's red room produced by a public-access intern can read either as homage or as derivation. Show me.
Talk-show formatting as interrogation of the unconscious is a sharp structural metaphor and bleeding canvases is a usable opening image. Hard to fully grade with the blocked page, but Lynch-by-public-access is a register I'll take.
Reviews
The loose plot involves a young painter named Audrey struggling to create...an exploration of the subconscious that's not necessarily meant to add up.