Traveling Man
2025 · 10m · USA
Directed by Graham Mason
Genres: comedy, fantasy, sci-fi
Tones: absurdist, humorous, whimsical
A man makes a mysterious deal with a stranger on a park bench, then has to live with what he traded for. A modern-day fable told with quick-witted comic timing.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Eric Rahill on a park bench is already a premise. Add a Faustian deal and apparently we have a movie. Fine, I'm in.
Fable structure delivered as deadpan park-bench comedy strips the genre of its usual mystical wallpaper, which is the harder move. Twilight Zone rewritten by Eric Wareheim's gentler cousin is a register I trust.
A park-bench Faustian deal rendered in black-and-white grain with a liturgical melody, played as deadpan park-bench comedy rather than mystical staging — Mason's register is reliably weird in the right way. Eric Rahill is the right vessel.
Reviews
A quick-witted style of comedy that feels both timeless and fresh.