The parking validation guy who validates your SOUL.
A cheerful parking attendant considers it his job to do more than validate parking. He wants to validate the customers themselves, delivering compliments about their appearances and the inner qualities behind them. Everyone who comes up to him with a ticket walks away validated as a worthwhile human being. Soon, the parking attendant becomes so popular that people line up for validation...
Acting
T.J. Thyne's earnestness sells the absurd premise completely.
Writing
Kurt Kuenne's script finds poetry in parking structures.
Direction
Tight 16 minutes, zero fat, maximum impact.
Director
Kurt Kuenne
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kurt Kuenne made this between bigger projects; it won 40+ festival awards and became a staple of film school 'show don't tell' lessons.
The film predicted the modern 'dopamine economy' of likes and compliments—Hugh Newman was doing 2007 what Instagram does now, but with actual eye contact.
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