Total Transportation
2023 · 10m · USA
Directed by Boothe Carlson
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: contemplative, melancholic, surreal
A young real estate agent giving an apartment tour keeps getting interrupted by cryptic memories and possible ghosts bleeding through the walls. The listing becomes a haunting in slow motion.
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Imagine a Zillow walkthrough where the property is also haunted by other people's video diaries. Carlson found a genuinely new shape for a ghost story.
Boothe Carlson bleeds analog supercut into a real estate showing — the empty apartment as vessel for somebody else's accumulated past, Apichatpong's empty rooms in lineage. Patient and well-made.
Analog video supercut bleeding into a real estate showing, treating the empty apartment as vessel for somebody else's accumulated past — Boothe Carlson's haunted-listing conceit is a strong organizing image.
Reviews
Carlson's film engages both through a charming performance by its frantic agent and through a stimulating supercut of analog video and sound.