Zie 37 Stagen (1997)

Name: Zie 37 Stagen
Released: 1997

Directed by: Sylvain Guy
Country: Canada
Elsewhere: IMDb

The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like this

How it feels

An assassin gets into an elevator with a military general, planning to kill him. The elevator ride turns into a wild and fantastical experience, with dialogue spoken in a mix of European languages.

comedicwhimsicaloffbeatfast-pacedsurrealabsurdchaoticplayful

What happens

Zie 37 Stagen is a Canadian short comedy film, directed by Sylvain Guy and released in 1997. The film centres on an assassin who enters an elevator with a military general with the intention of killing him, only for the elevator trip to be more wild and fantastical than anybody but the elevator operator had imagined. The film's dialogue is spoken entirely in a mashup of several different European languages. The film premiered at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois in February 1997, and was later screened at the 1997 Yorkton Film Festival, the 1997 Cinéfest Sudbury International Film Festival, and in the Perspective Canada program at the 1997 Toronto International Film Festival. It won six awards at Yorkton, for Best of Festival, Best Comedy, Best Art Direction, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, and Best Direction. At Cinéfest, it won the award for Best Canadian Short Film. It was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 18th Genie Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? You can browse by genre, country and year, or take this one into the 3D catalogue and ask the Catbot for something closer.