There's an odd decisive joy to this short film of odd decisive actions. I love the sense of deadpan discovery as the filmmaker finds abbreviated new uses and gestures for everyday plastic things, conjuring up a dance of objects for an audience of food. Really.
I've just written another essay for Comment Magazine's "Comforts and Delights" web feature, the strange but true story-cum-art project: Grace Between the Cushions: A Love Letter to My College Couch. It's a more straightforward telling than the short film above—about which a good friend of mine had this to say: "It's cute and bleak. I love it."