Diana Cam Van Nguyen’s 12-minute documentary Love, Dad is an attempt to reconcile the past with the present by an adult daughter who rediscovers her father’s old letters from prison. The film becomes a process of examination, closer to reanimation than reconstruction, of all remaining evidence from the past—letters, photographs, memory—to understand what went wrong.… Continue reading Love, Dad: Tracing the Disintegration of a Family and the Leaving of a Father
Tag: Animation
Rediscovering the Magic: Classic Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts Restored for Disney+
The Walt Disney Animation Studios is celebrating its centennial year with a special restoration project. This summer, Disney+ started releasing a collection of 27 newly restored classic Walt Disney Animation Studios shorts. The restorations are being spearheaded by the Walt Disney Studios Restoration and Preservation team, led by director Kevin Schaeffer. The team includes creative… Continue reading Rediscovering the Magic: Classic Walt Disney Animation Studios Shorts Restored for Disney+
6 Amazing Animated Short Films Worth Your Time
Animated short films are like magic, captivating audiences with their creative visuals and storytelling. These bite-sized wonders take us to fantastical worlds, enthralling us with their artistry. Let’s explore some of the best animated short films to watch! On this journey, there is something for everyone: laughter, emotion, and thought-provoking tales. These shorts show the… Continue reading 6 Amazing Animated Short Films Worth Your Time
Snowflakes: Living and Resilience in Little Ones
Sabrina Stoll’s Snowflakes is an animated 6-minute drama about finding a spark of magic in bleak circumstances. Charly, its tiny protagonist, discovers that there is joy to be found even within the confines of four walls when a little girl walks into her room at the children’s hospital. Written by Tiziana Giammarino & Sabrina Stoll,… Continue reading Snowflakes: Living and Resilience in Little Ones
Kintsugi: Change on Incomprehensible Scales Requires Coping in Small Degrees
Cleto Acosta-McKillop’s 8-minute Kintsugi uses the philosophy behind the Japanese practice to craft a film about shifting times. A larger economic change is seen through the eyes of a traditional Japanese good luck cat. What is to become of the old, simple cat at the simple ramen restaurant when a shiny new restaurant with a… Continue reading Kintsugi: Change on Incomprehensible Scales Requires Coping in Small Degrees
LUCHA and the EKEKO: Daughters and The Journeys To Their Mothers
LUCHA and the EKEKO, written and directed by Roger Edwards Jr., is an 8-minute animated film that closely watches as a mother and daughter find new meaning in their relationship through an old memory. The orphaned child gains fresh perspective on her adoptive mother just as the latter shares the story of a shift in… Continue reading LUCHA and the EKEKO: Daughters and The Journeys To Their Mothers
Lifeblood: A River, And The God And Land It Sustains
Nicholas Tory’s animated short Lifeblood pays tribute to Bourke shire, a New South Wales town with centuries of Aboriginal history. Set against the backdrop of the Darling River, the landscape contains stories upon stories, layered and overlapping, an intricate ecosystem that is governed by each element of the land. The 19-minute film—written in collaboration between… Continue reading Lifeblood: A River, And The God And Land It Sustains
The Trail Beyond Highland Road: Feel-Good Conservationism And Hope
Eli Copperman’s 5-minute dramedy, The Trail Beyond Highland Road takes pains to keep its tale simple. Drawn in a child’s hand, the animated short looks through the eyes of a little girl and her father at the plight of wildlife without food and habitat. The whole of the ecosystem in a razed down forest next… Continue reading The Trail Beyond Highland Road: Feel-Good Conservationism And Hope
Speed Dating: A Charming Rom-Com On The Pains Of Dating
For those single for a long time, it can engender an obsessive fear of never finding love and a concurrent obsessive search for love. For the protagonist of Meghan Artes’ stop motion animation Speed Dating, Ava, this has resulted in giving a chance to a more efficient method: speed dating. The film opens with a… Continue reading Speed Dating: A Charming Rom-Com On The Pains Of Dating
Je Sors Acheter Des Cigarettes: A Family Through The Eyes Of A Boy
Osman Cerfon’s animated Je Sors Acheter Des Cigarettes (I’m Going Out For Cigarettes) is beguilingly simple. A 12 year-old boy passing his days with cola and games, his mother and sister around him, but never intrusive and never too close. Jonathan (Thėo Van de Voorde) knows them, and perhaps they know each other in the… Continue reading Je Sors Acheter Des Cigarettes: A Family Through The Eyes Of A Boy