wyd?
2019 · 10m · USA
Directed by Josh Granovsky
Genres: comedy, documentary
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
After receiving a text, Josh crafts a response. A low-key expose on selfie photoshopping — one man's elaborate appearance-altering ritual just to reply 'wyd?'.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Confessing on camera how long it takes to fake a selfie is the kind of small-grade humiliation cinema doesn't usually bother with. That oversight is exactly the gap I'm scouting for.
Treating the casual selfie reply as full procedural — the photoshop micro-rituals nobody admits to — is the kind of confessional gag that lives or dies on tonal control. Single-author Granovsky has the vulnerability to make it work; I'd watch.
Treating selfie-photoshop micro-rituals as a procedural is a brutally specific subject — most people would die before admitting to that process and Granovsky films it. Confessional vulnerability dressed as expose.