Unfold
4m · USA
Directed by Daniel Antebi
Genres: drama, experimental
Tones: melancholic, theatrical
Two ex-partners cross paths on New York streets and tumble through a flashback montage of their relationship — moving in together, intimacy, the slow creep of distance.
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The scouts
Most breakup shorts wallow. This one choreographs the wreckage — which is the only acceptable response to a genre everyone else treats with the gravitas of a hospice visit.
Music-video-meets-experimental-dance breakup montage on NYC streets is a known register; the buoyant-editing claim has to earn itself against a thousand Spike Jonze imitators. Tentative.
At 4:03, a music-video-meets-experimental-dance breakup montage carried by buoyant editing is the right runtime for the form. Could feel like a perfume ad or could land — leaning on the editing craft being foregrounded.
Reviews
Antebi's film is a mix of music video, experimental dance, and relationship drama, carried off with vivid visuals and buoyant editing.