Gatsby in 11 minutes? This experimental fever dream said 'hold my champagne.'
The Fitzgerald classic as you've never seen it, transposed to a Los Angeles of sleek modern architecture and strip-mall foot clinics.
Direction
Almereyda's bonkers adaptation choices—strip-mall Gatsby is unhinged genius.
Editing
Condensed narrative that somehow keeps the novel's emotional architecture.
Production
LA modernism as East Egg—ugly-beautiful location scouting.
Director
Michael Almereyda
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
James Benning, who plays Owl Eyes, is a revered structuralist filmmaker—his casting is Almereyda winking at experimental cinema history.
Almereyda later directed the 2015 Experimenter and 2000 Hamlet—this short is his micro-budget thesis on literary adaptation as vandalism.
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