Library Altitude Zero

I heard about this film in a podcast or interview of some kind and sought it out on Tim Vine's website curious as to what the comedian would have created in feature film form. (Plus I thought the title was excellent and a be-haired Tim Vine in a Pilot's outfit had a strange existential appeal to me).

Both a vehicle for some irreverent and outlandish gags and moments, but also a sort of cohesive mystery and character study on obsession and trauma and purpose. It's a wonderful contradiction: absurdist in places but also incredibly human, fragmented but also engaging, cheap and written for the locations available and yet also not without directing and editing panache or without satisfying locations to be in.

I enjoyed this film a lot, it's my kind of no-budget romp, it has a superb performance from Tim Vine whose line delivery and understanding of the scene's needs makes it sad that he's not spread his acting wings even more in this form. Library Altitude Zero is the kind of film Chris Morris would have been proud to make and that I would have aspired to make at university; I would have sought out and found and shared in my youth. In some small way I hope this review also does that.