Kitchen

A queasy, quietly comic short that traps you alone in a kitchen with an unpleasant task and a mounting sense of dread.

Directed by

Alice Winocour

Genres

Thriller, Comedy

Starring

Elina Löwensohn, Bernard Nissile

Overview

A young woman prepares a recipe for American-style lobster, which calls for cutting the live lobster into pieces, before throwing it, still alive, into boiling oil. Alone in her kitchen, faced with the two lobsters that are still moving, she tries to kill them as cleanly as possible.

How it feels

Dark, absurd, tense and eerie. Slow-burning and needs your attention.

About

Isolation, violence, guilt, morality

Content

Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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