THINGS THAT HAPPEN
2019 · 19m · USA
Directed by Bobby McCoy
Genres: dark comedy, drama, satire
Tones: absurdist, contemplative, darkly comic
A musician, a YouTuber, and a TikTok star navigate their egos and depression while lost in a vapid and cruel media landscape. The film is a portrait of isolation, loneliness, and quiet terror among young adults performing identity for the internet.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A TikTok star, a YouTuber, and a musician walk into an existential void — and the punchline is that there is no punchline, just the soul-crushing hum of content.
Computer Chess + Tangerine is an ambitious tonal cocktail — collapsing content-creation and psychological dissolution sounds promising in 2019 but risks being overtaken by the very phenomenon it diagnoses. Without seeing it through the Vimeo wall, I'd watch with cautious interest.
Treating social media performance as existential condition rather than backdrop — that's the right framing for a subject most films get wrong. Nineteen minutes is a real commitment but the page is locked, so I'm trusting the pitch.