Excellent program, sadly underattended. Used to sell out both screenings – what happened?<\/p>\n
The Moon and the Son<\/em><\/strong> Bubblecraft<\/em><\/strong> The Little Matchgirl<\/em><\/strong> Man Drawing a Reclining Woman<\/em><\/strong> Loom Dragon<\/em><\/strong> The Mantis Parable<\/em><\/strong> The Zit<\/em><\/strong> Drawing Lessons<\/em><\/strong> The Sandbox<\/em><\/strong> Fumi and the Bad Luck Foot<\/em><\/strong> Juxtaposer<\/em><\/strong> Ichthys<\/em><\/strong> Fluid Toons<\/em><\/strong> Chickenheads<\/em><\/strong> Excellent program, sadly underattended. Used to sell out both screenings – what happened? The Moon and the Son The Oscar ™ winner for best short in 2006. Might not have belonged in this program, since it’s more than twice as long as any other short here. Guy venting frustration with his Italian ex-mafioso father via […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,70,21],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-animation","tag-atlanta-film-festival","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2432,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Oscar ™ winner for best short in 2006. Might not have belonged in this program, since it’s more than twice as long as any other short here. Guy venting frustration with his Italian ex-mafioso father via animation. I’m not into the whole squid-and-the-whale family bitching scene, but this was pretty good stuff. Faith and Emily Hubley mentioned in the credits, I guess as animators, though Faith died in 2001.<\/p>\n
\nKinda crappy music video to kinda crappy song. Things float by in bubbles, okay.<\/p>\n
\nDisney cartoon that looks like Disney cartoon but moves… a little too smoothly… something seemed somehow wrong. Sad lil story of girl freezing to death set to some important music piece I forget which.<\/p>\n
\nStop-motion! Director was there.<\/p>\n
\nStop motion… old woman is Death, collects thread from dying street musician’s head after he saves little girl in the street, weaves it in her loom. Director was there, spent four years on it, is angry about Adult Swim.<\/p>\n
\nGirl draws horrors from her past at orphanage, director sells drawings for lotta money, girl summons dragon to destroy director. Something about commercializing other people’s artwork… filmmaker must work for a heartless cartoon company that rakes in large profits while paying him beans. Unjust!<\/p>\n
\nI never get parables. The mantis wouldn’t save the caterpillar, but the butterfly saves the mantis, or something.<\/p>\n
\nGross. Cat pops huge zit or something.<\/p>\n
\nGirl can’t sleep, learns to draw Picasso upside down while listening to thrift store tape or something. Director tries to nimbly jump between insomnia and drawing and tape facets of plot but didn’t seem so nimble to me. I don’t always get the point of cartoon shorts… seems like they put too much thought into being fucking nimble and end up with nothing much to say and then you’ve got everyone telling me oooh, The Cathedral<\/em> is a great little movie and I should see it. Not saying Drawing Lessons<\/em> is as sluggish as The Cathedral<\/em>, but both focus so much on technique and nothing else – intended audience seems to be themselves and fellow animators.<\/p>\n
\nNow this one had something to say, I think. Maybe about the world trade center. Maybe about the tsunami, or about absent parents, or The Future? I didn’t get it… was kinda pretty, though. Kinda.<\/p>\n
\nFinally a great one. Fumi’s foot is bad luck, and everything crashes into it and hurts her, till she learns to use its extreme bad luck to draw misfortune away from others. Nice closing shot, with Fumi walking through a field, tripping bulldozers and things.<\/p>\n
\nBy the talented Joanna Davidovich. Girl on bench just wants to get along with cat, I think.<\/p>\n
\nThe Cathedral<\/em>, part 2, wherein guy at restaurant grows old while waiter catches tiny fish for dinner. Great part involving screaming and arms falling off, the rest an exercise in tedium.<\/p>\n
\nFantastic plymptoon & stimpy style badass grungy little bunch of skits with more humor in ’em than everything previous (except Fumi) combined. Voices obviously done after the fact just add to hilarity. Downloadable too! Kinda terrible, but also the one I most wanted to see again. That’ll show all you serious artists.<\/p>\n
\nMore fluid toons, starring a chicken hunting rabbit. Artist in attendance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"