ENDLESS COOKIE is a one of a kind documentary/essay/comedy from the half brothers Seth and Pete Scriver. The film is nominally the story of the brothers getting together to record stories that were to be animated into a documentary that tell the story of Shamawatta, however the film is something greater than that with the film becoming a meta exploration of the family and the making of the film.
I’m going to say right up front that this film would not have worked as anything live action. The film grows exponentially due to the visuals creating a unique and one of a kid world. It’s a choice like PIECE BY PIECE (the Pharell Williams documentary) and the use of a CGI Robbie Williams in BETTER MAN that takes what would be a just okay film and makes it several shades of great.
Wandering all over the place ENDLESS COOKIE seems like it is buckshot shot from a gun. Things are all over the place, the making of the films, the family bit, the stories that are supposed to be the film and the life of a member of the First Nation. Everything is everywhere, separate but connected like things in the house or on the porch and in the yard. However after while the whole things makes sense and questions are answered.
Why are we hearing these seemingly random conversations? Why are things animated? How do the stories tie into this? Why are we being shown the people making the film? These questions are answered and we are placed into this animated safe space where the whole world exists because it’s all up on screen.
That probably makes no sense, and I understand that because ENDLESS COOKIE is a film that you can not ever hope to explain to anyone, you just have to press a copy into people’s hands and say “watch this”
Consider this me pressing it into your hand and saying watch this.
In all seriousness this film may seem like other things in either construction or style but by the time you get to the end you will be well aware that the film is one of a kind and the familiarity is merely your brain trying to hopelessly explain something it doesn’t know by making assumptions. There is nothing else like ENDLESS COOKIE and now that it is here we I can honestly say we were lessened until it arrived.
Forget your expectations and buy a ticket and take a ride.
Recommended- even more so to the adventurous.
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