The Super Exciting Gang: Unsettling Comedy of Vanities, Erasure, and Racial Appropriation
Ricardo Lorenzo’s dark comedy The Super Exciting Gang comes with fantastic graphics and a plot so absurd it starts to ...
Tag: Comedy Short Film Review
King Ed: Co-Dependence and Coming of Age in Surreal Comedy
Nick Fascitelli’s comedy King Ed is trippy and touching and funny in that self-conscious, meta way we all love and ...
Just Lie To Me: Meet-Cute, But Make It Dark, But Make It 2010s
Kelly Walker’s Just Lie To Me, written by its star Kylie Alesso, is a comedy about a bartender whose finances ...
Practice Space: A Part II of Childhood Friendship and Timeless Struggles
Dan Perlman’s Practice Space reunites Alex Chavez and Yan Bo Lin, who last shared screen in Perlman’s excellent 2020 drama ...
Impulses: Kleptomania and Other People’s Things is a Love Story for the Ages
Rajendra Thakurathi’s 10-minute comedy Impulses gives a humorous turn to what is otherwise a fairly painful experience: controlling an impulse ...
Poor Tax: A Satire for the Whole Family
As a satire on wealthy white Americans, Alec Bewkes and Oliver Salk’s Poor Tax is a close reproduction of reality, ...
My Obsession with Death: Coming of Age by the Poolside
Alexis Evelyn’s My Obsession with Death is a 10-minute comedy that, along with its young adult protagonist, attempts to transcend ...
The Scene: Self-Referential Comedy At Its Most Non-Fictional
Connor Morley’s 6-minute comedy The Scene takes a nightmare that almost every director is painfully familiar with and turns the ...
The Sum of Several Sticky Situations involving Salami Sticks: Sticky, Gushy, Smelly, Farcical Extravaganza
Oli Stening’s The Sum of Several Sticky Situations involving Salami Sticks commits itself to twenty-one minutes of batty horror and ...
The Dealer: Micro Comedy on a Micro Budget
James Peacock’s The Dealer, a 5-minute comedy written by Sam Liddell, has its protagonist shuttling between its two other characters ...
