Duh<\/a>.<\/p>\n We Can’t Live Without Cosmos<\/em> (Konstantin Bronzit)<\/strong><\/p>\n An ode to friendship and space travel. Pretty traditional-looking animation with some fun effects (I loved when the stars turned into falling snow) and a beautiful story. Bronzit has made a bunch of shorts including the oscar-nom Lavatory Lovestory<\/em>.<\/p>\n Prologue<\/em> (Richard Williams)<\/strong><\/p>\n Firstly, holy crap, Richard Williams<\/a> is still working. Looks like a very good figure-drawing exercise come to life – a single “shot” detailing a violent gladiator fight and the moments before and after.<\/p>\n If I Was God<\/em> (Cordell Barker)<\/strong><\/p>\n That’s National Film Board of Canada legend Cordell Barker, of The Cat Came Back<\/em> and Strange Invaders<\/em> fame. The animation here does not disappoint, terrific stop-motion, though the story’s just alright: reminiscing of schoolday fantasies.<\/p>\n Sanjay’s Super Team<\/em> (Sanjay Patel)<\/strong><\/p>\n Saw this with The Good Dinosaur<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n Bear Story<\/em> (Gabriel Osorio Vargas)<\/strong><\/p>\n From Chile – Lonely bear has a complicated mechanical box that tells his life story of being kidnapped and imprisoned by The Loneliest Stoplight<\/em> (Bill Plympton)<\/strong><\/p>\n Not Plympton’s best work about inanimate objects in love (that’d be The Fan and the Flower<\/a><\/em>), but cute. Patton Oswalt voices a stoplight who’s had some good times but is now mostly forgotten since everyone takes the highway.<\/p>\n The Short Story of a Fox and a Mouse<\/em> (bunch of French directors)<\/strong><\/p>\n Hard to focus with the girl behind me saying “soooo cute!” over and over, but I guess a fox and a mouse take turns saving each other’s lives and become friends. Second<\/a> animated movie I’ve seen this month casting owls as the villains.<\/p>\n Catch It<\/em> (bunch of French directors)<\/strong><\/p>\n A wannabe Ice Age<\/em>, meerkats vs. a vulture. Every year when this program needs to fill time it throws in something animated by a gang of French people.<\/p>\n – Roughly in descending order of how much I loved ’em. World of Tomorrow (Don Hertzfeldt) Duh. We Can’t Live Without Cosmos (Konstantin Bronzit) An ode to friendship and space travel. Pretty traditional-looking animation with some fun effects (I loved when the stars turned into falling snow) and a beautiful story. Bronzit has made a bunch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,96,1935,308,679,457,1660,21],"class_list":["post-10886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-animation","tag-bill-plympton","tag-chile","tag-don-hertzfeldt","tag-pixar","tag-richard-williams","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10894,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10886\/revisions\/10894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"\/journal\/image16\/tomorrow.jpg\")
<\/p>\nPinochet’s police<\/del> zookeepers, losing his family while away – though in the mechanical version his family stays. Not wowed by the animation but I loved the inventiveness of the “mechanics”. Doesn’t Osorio mean “bear river”? Was that bear the director?<\/p>\n
\nThese shorts programs are fun, even though World of Tomorrow<\/em> looked better on my TV than on the movie screen somehow. Watched the 2014 program<\/a> at The Ross and the 2013<\/a> in Atlanta… and I guess the 2006<\/a>… so I’d have some catching up to do if I got a sudden urge to watch all the oscar-nominated animated shorts ever… not that I’d do a thing like that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"