This Is Not a Comedy

In THIS IS NOT A COMEDY, Gabriel (Gabriel Nuncio, cowriter and codirector as well) is an unemployed comedian with a stage routine that isn't funny and a movie treatment about a woman who travels to Mars, for reasons not fully explained. He dates a woman who walks around with a ukulele and believes she's in touch with aliens. A close female friend asks him to donate sperm so she can have a baby at 39, making it clear she doesn't want him to participate as a father and it would be hard to imagine anyone less prepared to perform the responsible tasks of parenthood. With nothing else going on in his life, apart from his frequent calls to the locksmith as he locks himself out of his place over and over, he seems sure that fatherhood will give his empty existence some purpose. He attends a weird funeral. He is dragged into a breakup between his gay friends, which results in an inexplicable dance in the middle of the night. He seems to be a person incapable of learning from experience. He's a bad listener (someone dies while he obliviously delivers a dull monologue). At any given moment in the narrative, it's difficult to tell if we are in the present, the past, or some imaginary place in his mind. A woman in a space suit sits on his bed now and then, suggesting that not everything we see is actually happening.