Woods Baseball
2015 · 10m · USA
Directed by Ben Kujawski
Genres: comedy, satire, sports
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
Mockumentary coverage of the 1997 World Series of Woods Baseball: it's baseball, but in the trees, with stump-seating, bat sword-fights, and umpire bribes encouraged. The Hutton Sasquatches vs the Lexington Timberhawks.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
A made-up sport played among the maples, treated with mock-prestige reverence. It's the kind of premise a focus group would strangle in the crib — which is precisely why it needs a home in the vault.
Mockumentary of an invented sport with full lore architecture is Christopher Guest country, which is fine — but the world has many of these, and the Carhartt regional-weirdo angle has to do real work. Reserved.
Mockumentary of the 1997 World Series of Woods Baseball with stump-seating and bat sword-fights is a delightful commitment-to-bit premise. Can't confirm execution from the blocked page, but the lore-density swing is the right one.