Dirt (1998)

Directed by

Chel White

Country

United States

Runtime

4 min

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man develops an intense childhood fascination with dirt that grows into a strange adult obsession. The film uses dark humor and surreal imagery to tell a short parable about individuality and self-reliance.

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What happens

Dirt is a four-minute film by independent filmmaker Chel White. A man’s strange obsession with dirt starts as a childhood game, but eventually manifests itself on a most surreal level. The dark humor, expressionistic images create an allegory for individuality and self-sufficiency, in this off-beat ecological parable. The short narrative is taken from a radio program written and read by Joe Frank, and stars Evan Knapp, with cinematography by Mark Eifert. The American independent film producer Christine Vachon describes the film as “A post-modern Invasion of the Body Snatchers". The Stockholm Film Festival calls it, "A very original and inspired work. Sharp and to the point." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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