Hi! We’re Max Cohn and Ellie Sachs - the writer/directors behind Proof of Concept. We’ll be looking out for your questions about the movie and look forward to answering some of them! Thanks for watching

@thesoundofcoolness

4 ай бұрын

Other than meaningless shots on a beach during golden hour, are their any other overused short film tropes you've noticed?

@Eddi121212

4 ай бұрын

Does a short film need a whole 3 act structure, with complete character arcs that undergo a profound change?

@theovenengen4067

4 ай бұрын

What I am waiting for is a short film about the making-of of this film.

@elliesachs

4 ай бұрын

@@Eddi121212 Apparently not! :) But a clear beginning middle and end is always good. If you can also incorporate profound character arcs with a short runway, do it!

@elliesachs

4 ай бұрын

@@theovenengen4067 We do have a ton of BTS footage…

Now I need that feature film about how hard it is adopting a short film into a feature film

I love Richard Kind! Thanks, New Yorker.

Brilliant. Very cool cast. Richard Kind; need more films with this wonderful actor in it.

@MorganAFunches

2 ай бұрын

I agree! He's so underrated!

And this my dear friends is why I love the New Yorker. These little shorts put outmacking humour out of the mundane. In the magazine, my favourite thing is the Shouts & Murmurs section: I even sent a piece to them, but it was declined.

@FollowTheJohn

2 ай бұрын

It is a shame that the New Yorker laid off the entire film department in December 2023. They did it for "budget" reasons.

Great narrative and very inciteful. Love the writing and the actors too! Someone fund her!

Super good and funny! I enjoyed every minute of it! Literally.

This is so interesting! The fact that there was meta meta-ing of short films. Its a interesting point of view. I'm not one for watching a lot of movies but I do enjoy a short film, but its so rare to hear about them in general. Traditional Hollywood really does have a grasp on the film industry as a whole, doesn't it? Interesting. It's a little how I feel about the music industry and the ability to be your own version of creative while still under a label, let alone to be found by a label with so many talented people out there.

Bravo! Well thought out and surreptitiously brilliant! Having attended many indie and "mainstream" film festivals, this would rate much higher than the vast majority. And, for myself, this leads to several other topics which could also be educationally humorous! Perfect casting too. And just out of curiosity, I didn't bother to study the credits, so could you tell me how many people it took to produce this gem?

This is so trippy. I love it!!!

So true it hurts. Nicely done.

I love it! Awesome! You know who you should get? Richard Kind. He's compelling. That would definitely impact the production value.

Well done and highly enjoyable.

This was great, on every level!!

This is SO Funny! Great job!👏👏

Love it! Will share with our teenage son - an aspiring director.

@joanneweiss3864

4 ай бұрын

Best of luck to him....and to you, as the mom of a comic😂

Wow what a concept for a conceptual short examining the importance of a short as a proof of concept for a feature about the financial and creative struggles of making a short.. on film, no less. Count me in.

Loved it! Needed a bit more staring at twigs for me. 😉 Thanks New Yorker.

Absolutely brilliant.

This is fantastic!

Me encantó el corto 🤩🤩🤩🤩!!!. Saludos desde Colombia.

Very cool concept, watched it on my Apple Vision Pro.

As a short filmmaker, i felt this.

Wonderful, very funny and very true!

Love the Barney Greengrass feature haha

A perfect short

When will you be moving into your experimental phase? Great short!

OMG That's Finn from The Sopranos!

Yes!!

I dig this.

Now that... was meta ;)

YOOO THATS FINN DETROLIO!!!!

Hilarious 😂

good job

hilarious, delightful, inventive!

💖💖💖💖

Short films are like the R&D of the film world. Yet you never see short films from the major players of today unless its a commercial. And the costs of making one are still quite high.

Woderful!!!

What was the actual budget?

@ml9867

4 ай бұрын

Probably around 2 million

@tstraubster

2 ай бұрын

😂

cute, loved it

A short film within a short film about short film. 😳 Take that Christopher Nolan.

@CatatonicImperfect

4 ай бұрын

and i was able to make out every line of dialogue, too! didn't even need subtitles.

very meta

👍❤️😎👏🎬🎥

Bwahahahaaa! Great ending! Silly film!

Pretty sure Chloe is a huge fan of Hong Sang-soo

Simple as ABC - Always Be Closing.

When you can’t think of an actual idea, go meta!

excellent film, but Uncle needs a mic!

Richard Kind = national treasure

Did you do it for 7?

Funny & all too real. 🎬 Those film festival entry fees are SOMETHING ELSE. A cash cow for those own & run the festivals.

What did u end up eating at Zabar's during the shoot?

Haven't seen an answer to the driving question: What was the final cost of making this short?

I'm loving this, though I'm also very much the target audience for this

very funny

nah this was great, the hell

Where's that toy store?

Artist Marcel Duchamp talked of "fighting the religion of art". What is being shown here is "the language of the cult of films". It is this kind of thinking that is bringing about the demise of film narrative as an artform, leaving the door open to AI content replacing "art". Movies were the Industrial Age and we're now in the Information Age. Time to adapt, which the last actor's strike failed to address.

Oh, the irony…. I can’t bear it. It’s like being stuck in an el vat or with Antonin Artaud, Jean Paul Sartre, and Anita Bryant. On Thorazine.

The real proof of concept would be to do a short film on setting up a proof of concept film festival.

This film is like something Andy Kaufman would make, only his version wouldn't make any sense.

I dont know wtf this was. But it was aight.

Great satire.

In this first comment I will explain how to be the first commenter.

This short film puts Inception to shame for its audacious self-actualization.

Loved it! Here, have my Oscar: