Tickle My Pickle

8 min

#film

Lithuania

In a hot-pink bedroom, teenage Emily gives free rein to the unruly world of adolescent fantasy. A jar of pickles, a pounding soundtrack and the arrival of the milkman become the ingredients for a playful exploration of attraction, curiosity and the awkwardness of growing into one’s own sexuality.

With its exaggerated colours, comic sensibility and slightly surreal premise, Tickle My Pickle approaches teenage desire through the lens of fantasy. The bedroom becomes a private stage where everyday objects acquire unexpected meanings and attraction turns into an imaginative game. Cheeky, colourful and deliberately a little strange, Greta Griniūtė’s short film approaches sexuality with humour and a mischievous sense of play.

8 minutes of desire without apologies.

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Late Night Movies

The new festival section gathers films that take us somewhere a little less polite: into desire, fantasy, awkwardness, bodies, obsessions and the strange things that happen after dark. These are films that allow dance and moving image to become playful, intimate, absurd or provocative—and that are perhaps best watched when the lights are low and conventional decorum has already gone to bed.

bio

Greta Griniūtė is a Lithuanian writer and director whose work combines humour, striking visual imagery and unconventional characters. After finishing high school, she moved to the UK to study physical theatre and acting, before continuing to Italy, where she worked as an assistant director with the theatre company MOTUS. She later received a scholarship to study filmmaking in Los Angeles, where she continued developing her practice as a writer and director.

Her filmmaking career began at the international film festival Cinemademare, where she wrote and directed several short films while collaborating on numerous other projects. In 2019, she wrote and directed Tickle My Pickle, which screened at festivals internationally, including LA Shorts, and received the Best Film award at ARFF Berlin. She completed an MA in Directing Fiction at Goldsmiths, University of London, and furthered her training at Prague Film School. Her subsequent short films Rice & Bread (2020) and The First Sunday After the First Full Moon (2021) were also selected for international festival programmes. She is currently developing her debut feature film Independent Child.

credits

Written and directed by Greta Griniūtė

Cast Jason Lyke, Emma Williams

Produced by Travers Jacobs

Executive producer Cary Sandoval

Cinematography Travers Jacobs

Editing Nikhil Bhoplay

Music Bobby Eccles

Production design Timothy Stuart Hildebrandt

Guest screening production En–Knap Productions