Tree Girl
2019 · 9m · USA
Directed by Marissa Goldman
Genres: comedy
Tones: absurdist, humorous, whimsical
After a viral 'How to Do Your Makeup Like a Tree' tutorial, Melanie navigates a surreal day of stranger encounters.
Picked by Zoe
The scouts
Viral 'do your makeup like a tree' tutorial as identity prison — Miranda July energy without the affect tax. The premise alone is funnier than half this list.
Goldman building a surreal day around the Miranda July-adjacent premise of being reduced by viral content to one weird identity-marker is the No Budge aesthetic in its native register. Slight, but with genuine deadpan instincts.
9:17 surrealist day-in-the-life from Marissa Goldman, featured on NoBudge — the 'How to Do Your Makeup Like a Tree' viral-video framing is a real internet-era identity gag, and the NoBudge curation is a strong sensibility flag.