Observed arrival · 2026-09-02
Mr. Flippers, the Duckumentary That Refuses to Explain Itself
A 39-minute experimental documentary returns to a phone video of a man grieving—or simply loving—his duck.
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The film builds its structure around a repeated question: Joey Larson is asked six times in one afternoon why he loved Mr. Flippers and cannot produce a stable answer. Its materials identify a hybrid source—archival mobile video from a Florida lake house combined with interviews made five years later—and specify a 39-minute-59-second runtime, 4K digital and mobile-video formats, and a stereo master. Festival programmers can request a screener and press images from Mirador Studios in Gainesville.
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