I wanted to post The Football Kid by CBoyardee, an amateur YT creative personality, but it appears he has taken down his works. The Football Kid is a brilliant short film which combines impressive aesthetics and dry humor. A monotone narrator tells a story over a montage of unrelated shots. The story is itself unimportant and simply serves as a centralizing point giving the visual sequence an implied meaning. The aesthetic is one of dreamy suburban banality, one seen often in the classic indie cinema of the 1990s. The Pesky Suitor (1995) featuring Claire Danes comes to mind. The soundtrack, the best joke of this short production, is Satie’s Gymnopedies. Satie’s most overused piece thusly gives the suburban scenes a faux artfulness. With this final smirk in place, The Football Kid functions more as a metafilm, appeasing all the sensory requirements without any narrative substance.
CBoyardee is probably best known for his absurdist take on Dilbert where Scott Adams’ famous character is seemingly animated by Mike Judge and enacting a workplace version of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant.
