Chuff Chuff Chuff Shorts Review VIFF2024-22

This tantalizingly brief, playful and sensual portrait of a relationship is delightfully ambiguous and almost hallucinatory, flirting with the themes of subjective perception and of the passage of time. A young man who may be asleep on a train and dreaming, or who may be experiencing déja vu, says, “We sit on the train, watching the scenery, eating watermelon … What’s going wrong?” His teasing exchanges with his partner reflect the ways in which cultural influences and individual experience filter our understanding and our very use of language.