Mumble: Fate of A Lost Icon

I saw this film when it was a part of the Miami Film Festival-- a first-time feature filmmaker effort, microbudget-- and it's ridiculously funny. Every time I watch it I find something else I love about it.

It's a classic rise to fame and fall from grace story told as a mockumentary. The way that the director presents absurdity in various scenes is something that reminds me of some of my all time favorite comedies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, early Woody Allen, and Kevin Smith's Clerks.

I really like that it does this for Mumble rap - legitimizing that genre of hip-hop as an art form that can handle being skewered cinematically, and poking at pop culture itself: as the range of what "makes it" expands, the time in the spotlight becomes brief to the point of instant erasure from memory.

Catch this filmmaker now because he's on the way up!