This black and white Ecuador short, framed in the old fashioned academy ratio and using no dialogue, is a discovery.The premise is that all the writing shown in the story of a mailman trying to make his deliveries around a town is some variation of the letter A, and that all the striking compositions are variations on geometric shapes primarily the triangle.The specific humor of the situation evokes the French actor/director Jacques Tati, who also made a film about a postman, used little dialogue, and enjoyed looking at oddly shaped buildings, though the artist here, Joe Houlberg, keeps his camera closer to the scene and doesn't offer the long and leisurely perspectives for which Tati is distinctive.The short may be a bit too intellectual for some, but it deserves to be more widely shown.
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