SUSANELAND made me literally LOL both times I watched it! Each of the five short episodes playing at CAAMFest in the EPISODICS shorts program is a slice of life-gone-awry. What happens when civility breaks down, in an elevator, or a checkout lane? What happens when you’re the target of judgments and criticisms instead of warmth and acceptance? We’re not talking big stakes fallout like, say, threatening nuclear war, or neo-Nazi marches – but we’re in an era in which the milk of human kindness seems to be running dry. SUSANELAND is the perfect mirror to our interpersonal sins and shortcomings. It’s like that Chinese parable, about the nail that comes out of the horseshoe, the horse that loses the horseshoe because of the lost nail, and on up the chain until the war is lost. SUSANELAND is about that nail we’re in danger of losing every day. I sat down with co-writers and creators Susane Lee and Andrew Olson just prior to CAAMFest. See susaneland.com for more details!
