A Slip in Time

Harkening back to the silent-film era and slapstick comedy, this little flick is about what you can’t see with the naked eye. A modern version of Eadweard Muybridge’s 1870 “motion photography,” this short shows what happens in slow motion as a stunt takes place, right down to the pie in the face. The fact that it is narrative-free also takes the viewer back to a time when film was purely visual. Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (Little Miss Sunshine) crafted this piece specifically for the Sundance Film Festival to show on a cell-phone screen. Given the subject and tightly shot stunts, it will be better on the big screen. —MD