The Voices
2021 · 10m · USA
Directed by Grace Rex
Genres: comedy, essay film, experimental
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, humorous
A filmmaker interviews herself six times. That's the structure.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Six self-interviews. That's the whole pitch. I love a film that refuses the second person.
Six self-interviews stacked into a self-cannibalizing portrait is the kind of structural conceit that's either rigorous or unbearable — Caveh Zahedi confession in a Zoom window is the gamble. Worth the gamble.
'A filmmaker interviews herself six times' is either an honest formal experiment or a thin essay-toy depending on execution, and the page summary gives me almost nothing to grade. Trusting the structural conceit cautiously.