Seven minutes of avocado anxiety that will haunt your grocery runs forever.
A film about a person's inability to cut an avocado. Directed by and starring Lorelei Ramirez, this experimental short finds strange humor in reality-bending absurdities and illogical deep-seated fears.
Direction
Ramirez weaponizes the mundane with surgical precision.
Writing
Dialogue that sounds wrong in the most right ways.
Director
River L. Ramirez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Premiered at the New York Film Festival's avant-garde sidebar, cementing Ramirez's reputation for transforming internet-native anxiety into cinematic form. The avocado became an accidental symbol of broke millennial aspiration.
The 7-minute runtime mirrors the average attention of a TikTok scroll—Ramirez traps you in what should be disposable content and makes it inescapably uncomfortable.
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