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Content Warning: N/A

Keywords: Knitting, Cliff, Obsession, Craft

Description: A women sat on a cliff knitting a really long scarf. When the scarf gets too long it starts to hang over the cliff and drag her down, but she keeps on knitting. She gets so persistent that she starts knitting her hair into the scarf when she has no yarn left. The scarf eventually drags her down when she realises it’s too late. She climbs up the cliff again with her knitting needles and her hair ripped, then tosses the needles of the cliff. She sits back down in her original seat and starts playing with the scissors.

Analysis: The starting short of the animation is lit with very low-key lighting which them switches to a much high-key lighting which displays clearly the change in time and implies how long the woman has been working on her knitting project.

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Content Warning: N/A

Keywords: Family, Birds, Community, Home

Description: The video shows bird eggs at the beginning being lost. Other birds work together to gather these eggs again and make a new home for them. These eggs then hatch and go into the new world to explore and explore themselves. At the end of the videos the birds all gather to their original home where they all hatched from, they transform the home and make it theirs.

Analysis: At the start of ‘Together’, the shots of the birds and the egg separately signify individuality. Followed by the clouds forming and the contrasting shot of the lighting, implies rising action and a disaster from the event as we see the bird eggs being displaced from their original nests. Facial expressions of other birds witnessing this can imply worry and panic.

In the video the creators have each of the birds styled in a different medium and colour. This shows their individuality and differences to each other.

The eggs are gathered in a rigid, rock-like home or nest. The colours of the nest being plain and grey on the outside and dark on the inside may suggest coldness.

The weather may reflect the mood of the upcoming scene where the birds leave their homes.

Towards the end of the film, we see the birds all gathered again in their original nest. The final shot of them flying in the sky can represent and symbolises community and family.

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Content Warning: N/A

Keywords: Cup, Struggle, Work, Home

Description: The video depicts a woman making herself a cup of coffee. It then shows her spending the rest of the day trying to think of ideas for an unknown project. This persists through the film until she spills her coffee which prompts her and idea to write.

Analysis: In this short film the mug may represent her unchanging state of creativity, with no new ideas, as the mug stays in one place throughout the film. The diegetic sound of the clock ticking symbolises the main character running out of time. In the video when she spills her coffee, this could represent her ideas being able to flow out, as this event is the one that prompts her ideas.

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This delightful and moving 3D short by ROOF Studio, a boutique animation studio based in New York, helps to change that. It tells the story of a single care home resident, from the pain of family separation during wartime to their reunion years later.

Finally, at its climax, Rosemarie's life story becomes a source of inspiration for her present-day caregiver. It's a reminder that a career in long-term health care is an opportunity to help others and become part of their history.

"It was crucial for the audience to emotionally connect with Rosemarie's journey, so we focused on strong frames, similar to an illustrated book, to convey her story," says Guto Terni, partner and creative director at ROOF Studio. "With this approach, we could communicate with efficiency, using the animation to amplify the emotions and give proper weight to her experience, while the voiceover brings an important element of realism to the film."

ROOF depicted Rosemarie's story using a more European-style of animation, using fewer frames. It enabled the team to focus on animating what was necessary for each scene. Also, it allowed them to bring an immense amount of detail to the 3D elements, a speciality of the studio. In total, the short includes 22 environments and 45 characters.

"Whether it's a scratch on an object, peeling paint on a wall, or even the movement of clothing and hair, the painstaking detail of each scene helps draw the viewer into the characters and their world on a deeper, more cerebral level," says Terni.

"When you're condensing a life story into two minutes, it's especially important to have the fluid camera work and composition work in harmony and guide you. So, even as you move from one shot to another - seeing Rosemarie's life as though you're turning the pages of her story - you can focus on the subject of the scene and still perceive all of the rich details because of the camera framing."

Agency CRK conceived the film as part of 'Make a Career of Humanity', a Switzerland-based campaign from an alliance of government and healthcare organisations promoting careers in long-term healthcare.

"Much credit goes to the CRK team, who gave us complete freedom to explore the looks of the characters and environments, which were based on real pictures of Rosemarie's family album," says Terni.

"They came to us with a great thoughtful script and always kept our creative vision moving forward. This collaboration was so fulfilling to us as artists, and we think the resulting film is a reflection of this mutual passion and trust in creating something beautiful together."

Originally produced in German, the film is now being released for English-speaking audiences after attracting nearly half a million views on YouTube. The campaign will run through 2023.

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Moving animated short shows how caregivers are helping to make history

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This delightful and moving 3D short by ROOF Studio, a boutique animation studio based in New York, helps to change that. It tells the story of a single care home resident, from the pain of family separation during wartime to their reunion years later.

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"Response of the Resilient" - A Nurses Week Film

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Metamorphisis is a story about an autistic child and a young mom against the society. a beautifully stylised visua story of a child and there interation with different problems in kids with learning difficulties. They aslo visually represent a coping mechanism called ‘masking’. “Autistic masking, camouflaging, or compensating is a conscious or unconscious suppression of natural autistic responses.”- autism awarness centre[1].Taking off this ‘mask’is showing that you are not suppression your true feelings. The scene where the child takes of his mask to reveal his true self when he is alone. Its a unique and powerful look into how the child percives and reacts to the world.

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Metamorphoses— Award winning animation short film (2021)

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Content Warning: N/A

Keywords: Healing, Inner Child, Empathy, Love

Description: A beautiful short film capturing important and difficult lessons learned about love, for others and for oneself. A girl sits in a park, peering out into the water, and is joined by her childhood self, who she soothes through feelings of loneliness and lack of love, with lessons of self-love and care, and an empathy for those around her who might not have loved her the way she needed. A simple connection between present and past, and the growth that happened in between, encapsulated by tenderness and care.

Analysis: The opportunity to inform our past selves of the wisdom we have now is one we all dream of. This short animation captures the beautiful essence of healing and growth through self-love and empathy. Feelings of tenderness are carried in the film through the soft, ethereal coloring, and gentle, child-like illustration style. Visual cues of holding hands and lying in the grass with a younger self communicate a building relationship with oneself. The music choice is soft, and emotional, aiding in resonating feelings of love, acceptance and care.

The period of twilight serves as the threshold between night and day, and is used as a cue between two people from different times that enables them to communicate with each other. The concept of the inner child is evoked, to illustrate how healing from trauma often involves merging your present self and your inner child. This film serves as a brief, surreal portal of time in which one can speak with their inner child to heal their wounds.

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Protection, loyalty, love and commitment

It begins with a mother pulling rambutans out of the tree and her son playful targets arrows the mother. He giggles as she sighs and she continues to collect the fruits out of the tree and then she notices her son disappears somewhere. She looks over and see her son standing over a man on the floor with a few arrows in his chest. A young boy has seen the scene and rans away. The mother wanted to stop the young boy but she stepped over the fruit which pricked her. She then looked over at her son and cried. She picked her archery in fear and pointed over the boy.

A mother and her son find themselves pushed to ethical extremes when they stumble upon something sinister during a regular day of foraging. You’ll identify the mother targeting the arrow towards the young boy is highlighting that she’s willing to kill to protect her son. Looking at this, I understood the challenge she had to make. Her son did not intentional kill the stranger but she knew her son would still have to face the consequences of this crime. This short film was impactful but simple. The director behind this animation was able to create a story that automatically led with some sort of enigma because the action behind the mother started a conversation through the film. In comparison, the other films I’ve seen it takes quite significant time to understand the concept behind the film but in this film, it was straight-forward to understand the concept of the film.

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1. Content Warnings

N/A

2. Keywords

- Kinetic Typography

- Scattered

- Repetitive

- Minimal

3. Description

This motion graphic features numbers which emerge from the centre and fill the canvas. Imagine water draining into a plug hole, this motion is repeated.

4. Analysis

I have chosen this film as I like the visual elements and the way kinetic type is used. My film will follow a similar structure as it will be purely typographical. The use of numbers within thus film has prompted me to look at information graphics surrounding care within this project.

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Keywords: family, love, Parallel Universe, Spiritual crisis

Description:

A story of reconciliation with life that revolves around the family of Evelyn, who lives a life of failure and busyness, with conflicts between her family and tax problems with her laundry. She is confused as to why she has made what she believes to be the right choices but is still having a bad time. It is not until Evelyn gains the ability to travel between universes that she experiences these amazing things while resolving conflicts and finding the answers she wants by interacting with various people along the way.

Analysis:

This film contains a very rich variety of content. In terms of format, it is not bound by any one genre and the presentation ranges from 3D to 2D. Many of the sequences are edited in quick succession to give the impression of a 'multiverse' explosion of information, which is also a great way to get the audience in the mood. In the second half of the film there is a quick cut to a close-up of Evelyn in the multiverse, with loud music, both of which work well with the intensity of the main character's emotions. A silent sequence is linked at the end of this segment, and the communication generated by the mother and daughter who turn to stone is replaced with subtitles. It is interesting to note that, at a time when the intensity of the emotion gives the viewer a sense of impending explosion, the film breaks this inertia by linking to a completely silent sequence.

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Everything Everywhere All At Once | Official Trailer HD | A24

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Content warnings: N/a

Keywords: nature, polarity, calmness, memories

The film is really simple but charming, just snapshots of a trip and music to guide you through. I think the film is about the differences between the times they spent in rural places vs more urban ones like the city, and had quite a nostalgic feel to the way the clips were filmed. Whilst not really about care, I think it just had a really nice charm to it and I felt inspired by the way they synced the music with the video clips and graded the colours in the shots.

I think the video doesn’t really have much of a deep purpose beside documenting the authors memories of a trip, but it was something I think everyone can relate to and the places almost seem like places I’ve been too as well. Maybe it could have benefited from telling more of a story, but that might not be appropriate if this was just the story of their trip and nothing else happened there. I did think that some parts were really great when the music starts to become louder at times that show really beautiful places in nature and the connection the author felt to these places.

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1. Content warning: N/A

2. Keywords: friendship, sororal love, class

3. Description

A funny light-hearted short about sororal/ female care within friendship and the struggles faced with wanting a better life for yourself/ wanting what you've been made to feel is unattainable

4. Analysis

The film offers fresh perspective into the value of friendship in the face of personal struggle. I thought the light-hearted tone was a great technique to discuss deeper subjects, and put personal troubles in put perspective. I think everyone can relate to feeling dissatisfied with how life is playing out, or feeling disappointed about how our aspirations compare to reality. The ending perhaps suggests that instead of seeking immediate answers, we can reach out to the direct systems of care available to us (our friends and immediate care/ support systems) to guide us through times of turmoil or uncertainity

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The Dispute | BFF Comedy about Big Dreams

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Tamo Junto (We're in this together) by Pedro Conti 

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Tamo Junto (We're in this together) by Pedro Conti 

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Content warning: loss, anxiety

Key words: Covid-19, solidarity, neighbourhood, community

Description: This short independent film was released during the pandemic and it explores the relationship between a young man and an elderly woman, Ms. Edi. The man cares for Ms. Edi throughout her isolation period until she gets vaccinated. Alone and unable to leave the house, the man provides her with thoughtfully prepared bags containing food and other essential supplies. One day, the man panics as Ms. Edi doesn't pick up his calls and he sees an ambulance passing by. He soon rushes to her house and frantically knocks on her door, expecting for the worse. Ms. Edi then surprises him by appearing behind him as she had just went to shop for groceries herself.

Analysis: This is a wholesome short film that explores the kindness and solidarity within human relationships when facing such adversities. There is a contrast between the 3D, bubbly, cartoony animation style and the content of the subject. This emphasises the empathy, care and warmth in the relationship as well as the sense of community in the neighbourhood of Jaçanã. This is also visible in the animation details throughout the film, such as the little post-it with supportive messages notes left my the man, the sunny and warm environments and the meticulous space and scenery design. The use of golden, orange toned natural light reinforces this feeling of closeness. The male character is characterised by broad shoulders, big hands and a large torso. All of this contributes to communicating the gentle, protective and caring nature of this character. The character design is overall quite consistent. Even though he is always wearing a black face mask, he appears to have a friendly affectionate expression. On the other hand, Ms. Edi was drawn with a curved back, skinny arms and a short figure, while maintaining a caring and nurturing expression. These design choices communicate the dynamic of the relationship very effectively. The environment and storytelling dramatically shift when the story hits the climax (seeing the ambulance). The lighting contrast and the use of white lights become more defined and shadows become more prominent. The bright, saturated and vivid colours turn into grey hues and black and white tones with red as the contrasting colour. The use of bright red standing out in the shadowy colours increases the rampant sense of alarm and anxiety as the character  runs to Ms. Edi's house. The peak of the action hits when the character revives his trauma and remembers his mother's death. The 3D animation animaton then transitions into a smooth 2D animation sequence.The animation sequence ceases, and simple monotone illustrations are displayed with the actor's voice overs.  The film ends on a brighter note, showing the progress of vaccination and the lifting of restrictions. I particularly admire the way they treated the subject with such delicacy and optimism, focusing on compassion and generosity. I learned a lot from the technical analysis of it, as simple colour, light and shape elements affect the emotional and sentimental value of the piece. These aspects gave the film strength, leaving a deep impact on the spectator.

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THE MOTHER | Award Winning Drama Short Film

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The mother

Time, pain, loss and regret

A Coddling mother is brushed off when she invades her daughter’s life. The mother is pleading quality time with her child but her daughter is disregarding her wish because she’d rather be occupied with work or go out with her friends. One day, the daughter gave in and said during the evening they’ll have a girls night in. The daughter arrives home and sees her mother collapsed on to the floor. The daughter and the father are waiting for the mother and they’ve received news that the mother is dead. The daughter burst into tears and argued with the father because she then found out the mother only had a week to live. She then received a letter from a mother that wished to spent the last week with her daughter.

The relationship between the mother and the daughter in the film is highlighting a normal conventional relationship with your daughter or son. A parent wanting to spend quality time her child as the child does not want to. Watching through this, I’d say I felt disheartened by this because it was insensitive for the daughter to push her mother way. It shows a perspective on how sometimes we don’t see how our parents love us or just want to talk. The mother’s loss has now probably left the daughter with regret and now understanding why the mother invaded her privacy. This film contributes to many things about a mother and daughter but also teaches you about regret and time. People are only in regret until something has been taken away.

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Where You Are | Award Winning Short Film about a Mother's Love

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Content warning - violent, equipments

Fear - Protection - Attachment - Transition

The transition in the short film will show the development of a child’s growth. The mother will portray a role in how mothers will have to come to accept their child’s choices.  The short film will follow the mother entering different stages of the child’s life. Each stage will have the mother wondering about the child’s whereabout and finding her son in bad scenarios. You’ll identify the mother will question’s the son’s choices and will find ways to prevent it to get anything worse. In the end, you’ll see the child has grown into adult and has left which has made the mother sadden to his disappearance because she comes to acceptance that she’ll not be protecting him anymore.

Where are you is created in a way to try to understand the dedication and commitment a mother will do for their child’s safety however it also gives you insight on how mothers vigorously live in the child’s life until she notices their child will not their safety and guidance. I’d say looking into this perspective, it gives you insights on how the mother is affected by the child’s growth. She’s noticed that she’ll not need to protect her child at all times and will eventually have to let her son go however that protection and love will not go at all. I’d also say the director behind the film wanted to pay some tribute to parents that are willing to take care for their child but to also raise a child.

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Where You Are | Award Winning Short Film about a Mother's Love

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Keywords: young adults, performance, dance, art, teamwork

Description: A short introspective film examining the Yingge art form (a form of folk dance originating in Southern China) through the lens of the Huaimei Yingge team, a group of young male self-taught dancers.

Analysis: The film captures the strength and tenacity of the boys and their strict training regimen to prepare for their dance performance. Though brief, the film explores the relationship between the boys as team members and the qualities that each brings to the team, following them through the preparation for, the performance and the aftermath. Whilst narration is limited, the striking visuals (the handpainted makeup painted on each boy's face, the footage of the boys performing in a circle of scorched earth etc.), against the countryside idyllic landscape and dreamy summer colour palette all add to evoking a sense of awe and respect in the viewer. By the end of the film I felt that I came away with a new understanding of the range of forms that care can take- how care can be shown as much in shared struggle or sustained hard work for the collective good as much as in

Whilst the film focuses on the Yingge dance, it can be seen additionally as an insight into themes such as countryside life, tradition and boyhood in rural China.

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The heroic dance that combines martial arts, opera, and Ming dynasty chivalry

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1.     Content Warning:  At times, touches the topic of abortion.

2.     Keywords:

Love, personal experiences, poetic imagery, ecstasy, eroticism, difficulty

3.     Description

This stunning short film reminds us about love and how we don’t talk about it enough in some ways. Directed by Camille Summers-Valli and Wessie du Toit, they closely focus on five different people, and film them in a very intimate way. Using analogue filming and placing their individual voices over the clips, they have created an intimate, poetic, and beautiful short film. All that is…  takes us through the subject of love and shows the doubts, the excitement and the struggles that come along the way.

4.     Analysis

It’s an opportunity to look deeper into people’s feelings and understand where they’re coming from. The film highlights the importance of coming to understand one another by questioning everyone with what love means to them or if they have experienced love. From different perspectives and different experiences, it really shows the viewer how everyone goes through such different lives and how some who might not have been born into love, found it elsewhere along their journey.  It reminded me of Bell Hook’s book ‘All about Love’ as with this short film, we’re shown what real love is and not a flawed understanding of what love is. Our idea of Love has been shaped by films, books, music etc… and this is a definition of love that needs to be changed. Experiencing, living and being part of community, in any form, such as friendships, family and any other community one feels part of, is where and how we learn how to love. This video, just like Hook’s book, shows that through communication, sharing and honesty, one can grow and love.

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True love, true loss | All That Is by Camille Summers-Valli & Wessie du Toit | Short | Random Acts

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Key words: Love, Childhood love, Separation, marriage

Description: This film depicts the painful story of two adults who used to love each other intensely as teenagers and now live completely separate lives. They dream of running away together and realise they still could, to feel that elecrtic feeling that they did when they were teens. The man is separated from his partner and cares for his child while the woman is engaged and soon to be married. The woman ultimately decides that it would be too much of a risk,their lives would flip upside down and she chooses the 'safe' option and gets married. They both still look out of their window in hopes the other person isthinking of them too.

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Another Day | Award Winning British Short Film

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Key words: COVID19, Time passing, Dreams

Description: This film shows aninteresting glimpseinto the lives of creatives with dreams who had been stuck in the confidesof their home during the pandemic. It feels as though you are constantly waiting for it to be over and mundane tasks become a bore to do. He puts some food in the microwave and while it cooks he begins drumming on kitchen surfaces. It transfers to a scene of him ona drum kit as though he's in a lucid dream in his happy place, then the food finishes cooking in the microwave and the ping brings him back to reality. I think a lot of people lost some of their spark and excitement over the pandemic due to the mundanity.

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The Wait  - 1 Minute Short Film | Award Winning

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Content warning: drug use

Key words: Addiction, Disassociation

Description: A meaningful film showing a young man cooking up what seems to be an intricate dish in a fancy restaurant before it is served to him as a joint, beautifully presented on a plate. It seems well prepared, sleek, on the surface it is quite attractive and inviting. Upon smoking the joint wesee him in a dingy bathroom, baggy eyes and a confused expression. I think this really shows how addiction and substance abuse can grab you and easily lure you in with its enticing highs and exciting facade before slowly destroying you.

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THE COOK | Award-Winning Short Film (2022)

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Content Warning: None

Key Words: animation, experimental, minimal, disability

Description: an experimental illustration of living without a head. This metaphorical disability prevents them being able to care for themselves, told through simple everyday tasks that one cannot do without the other. The plot then progresses into the "headed" character leaving the safety of their home to help their partner, leaving them behind to battle against unwelcome guests.

Analysis: The director poses the question, “Can you fix something that doesn’t want to be fixed?” as the "headed" character actually causes more damage than help when trying to find a solution. Ideas are communicated through both sides of the narrative, providing two different perspectives about living with a disability. Metaphorical interference from the outside world are cleverly portrayed through sharp, looming objects of an unfriendly nature, which is an effective way to portray a threat that isn't seen or cannot be visually described. Relationships and feelings can be presented without verbal communication, but rather acts (e.g. a hug, hiding, etc.).

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There'll be a time in our life, where most of us will have to care for those we love, nurse them through a challenging time where they are struggling either mentally, or physically. Ala Nunu's sensual animated short , pictures one such relationship, where one partner is portrayed as headless and in need of support from the other. Created with the hope that her film will "help some people feel seen", Ahead is a soft, touching watch, brimming with unrecognisable worlds and universal emotions.

"Can you fix something that doesn't want to be fixed?"

Introducing us to her committed couple, as they brush their teeth in front of the bathroom mirror (an impossible task for someone with no head!), Ahead follows the couple through a series of everyday scenarios until the "headed" of the pair leaves the comfort of their home on a mission to help their partner. Now alone, we start to understand the support the headless one needs, as the safe, gentle environment they live in is invaded by irregular and unwelcome guests, disrupting the balance of their coexistence.

Ahead is centred around the question of whether you can actually help someone if they're not ready for that help. "Can you fix something that doesn't want to be fixed?", Nunu asks as we discuss the narrative of her short and it's a relatable question, something many of us will have probably pondered in our own relationships.

"Is that helping the other person or rather yourself?", the filmmaker adds, hoping to inspire some debate around her thought-provoking film. Though Ahead feels like a film that can have multiple interpretations, very much dependant on your own experiences, Nunu wanted to address "the inability of taking action", ensuring her short presented both sides of the story - "the perspective of the person experiencing it, as well as the person who is sharing a life with someone feeling the constant fear."

For me, the real power (and appeal) in Ahead is in how it encourages you to reflect on your own relationships. You might not be exactly like the couple in the film, but maybe there are elements of their characteristics or their relationship that strike a chord. Personally, I pictured myself more as the headless one, not broken as such, but in need of support and Ahead helped me realise there's no real shame in recognising that - it's actually quite a liberating thing to admit.

Ahead started life as what Nunu describes as a series of "unconnected scenes that intuitively felt part of the story". Those ideas were then edited down to create a dialogue-free narrative set in a surreal yet intimate world. Here at S/W we think it's a beautiful, contemplative short and we eagerly await what its creator does next.

Ala Nunu is part of the COLA production cooperative and is now working on various projects, including what she defines as a "first professional film"

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1.Content Warning: no

2.Keywords: city, creative editing

3.Description: It is a short film made by a university student filming and producing. All the work was done by one person. It is used to introduce and spread the beauty of the city of Wuhan to everyone. It shows the main buildings, food and people of the city of Wuhan. With creative transitions.

4.Analysis: This film has nothing about Care, it's mostly about the city. I was attracted by its transitions. Most of the transitions are the shapes of the subjects in the before and after frames bridging up. The editing is matched by the rhythm of the background music, which is cheerful, so the video's images change quickly. But it doesn't confuse people because the transitions are smoothly linked.

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【创意短片】「我在武汉」 城市创意剪辑

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【创意短片】「我在武汉」 城市创意剪辑_哔哩哔哩_bilibili

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1.Content warning: high altitude jump

2.Keywords: missing, family relationship, live

3.Description: This is an animation film which won over nine awards in festivals and a nomination for the 95th Academy Awards in the category of Best Animated Short Film. A father and his child live on the cliffs of a snowy mountain, and they make their living by parachuting every day to the town at the foot of the mountain to sell ice. They both depend on each other and miss their wife/mother, who has died, daily. But the ice was melting and as their house was about to collapse, they chose to jump together in their arms. In the end, they didn't die, and they landed softly with fond memories of their wife/mother.

4.Analysis: The most attractive thing for me about this animation is the drawing style, a mock pencil drawing effect, with a simple line-based drawing of the characters. There is not too much color overall, but the reds, oranges and yellows that represent the characters are highlighted. Contrasts between warm and cold are used in the colors of many scenes. In this animation, the characters do not speak and there is no narration, only background music. So, editing and composition play a very large part. The film does not directly express the main idea but uses various metaphors and allusions to do so implicitly. This makes requirements on the audience, requiring a degree of comprehension and association, even requiring repeated watching of the film. The film uses hats to represent their memories, giving close-ups of them during their jump, the softness of the hats just corresponding with the tenderness they feel for each other. The film gives close-ups of ropes and thermometers to suggest time, temperature, and the changing emotions of the characters.

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Content Warning: N/A

Key Words: Monogamy, polygamy, relationships

Description: The short film focuses on polygamy in a documentary style, using puppet mice as the speakers. The mice are voiced by people from poly relationships and they discuss their experiences in poly relationships, how they have been judged in the past and why they believe poly relationships works for them.

Analysis:

Irony lies that people are judgemental of others in polyamorous relationships because they think they love less as they cant just love one person, when actually it arguably shows a larger amount of love and care for more than one person romantically. On the subject of care it shows polygamy to almost be small community of care within the relationships. I think it also demonstrates a selflessness to engage in these types of relationships. As the film is through the lens of puppet mice, it prevents the viewer from judging the actual people who are talking, hopefully meaning they are able to understand the film more. It also keeps the film lighthearted as it feels slightly humorous, especially with the jokes to do about mice, which engages with viewer more.

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Documentary featuring interviews from the UK polyamory community - in puppet form!

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MY SISTER - her new life as an independent learning disabled woman 

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Key Words: learning disability, community, family, support, independence, mental health

Description: In this short the filmmaker is showing the progress of his sister living in an assistant living home with other people with learning disabilities. It shows the community of care that is set up for her, how they all care for each other and her gaining more independence.

Analysis: I think the film provides insight into how beneficial assisted living can be to individuals with learning disabilities as it enables them to gain independence within a community that cares for them. It highlights how people with learning disabilities can also struggle with their mental health, which I don’t think is perhaps talked about a lot. The films switches between interviews with Gene (who the films focuses on) and people who are part of her system of care, linking to some of the texts explored earlier in the week that talked about how care and community are synonymous - and that people thrive the most in a good community, as is proven by Gene in the film.

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MY SISTER - her new life as an independent learning disabled woman

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Content Warning: N/A

Key words: tarot, metaphors, myths

Description: In this mixed media short film, you are taking through an artists interpretation of 22 tarot cards based on Derby and the Country’s history and legends.

Analysis: The structure being based on the original tarot such as The Fool, who we loosely follow through the film. The lack of sound bar white noise really focuses you into the film. Artistically it is all in black and white, with old drawings and etches being cut out and moved, which is heavily reminiscent to the intro of Monty Pythons Flying Circus. I think it feels mystical while communicating a sense of spirituality that is key to tarot. From this film I learn how important visuals are to communicate a story and that it doesn’t have to rely solely on narration. Additionally, I think it links to care because tarot is sometimes viewed as self care, and evokes a similar feeling to the reading of the ‘erotic’ that was looking at earlier this week.

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An animation based on 22 Derbyshire Tarot cards, which were created by filmmaker Noriko Okaku.

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Keywords: Creature, Life, Love, Hard Work, Creation

Description: A stop motion animation exploring the preciousness of our moments on the earth, spending time with loved ones and the enjoyment of our lives work and purposes. In the animation the characters experience joy, love, hard work, purpose, loss and loneliness. The tagline of the film is 'life is what you make it, and we are all makers in this world' suggesting that we are the creators of everything that has evolved throughout the years. In the story the artisan creature is preparing for his great work handling a project, choosing the right components and totally immersed in an artistic crescendo while racing against time bringing a special creation to life.

Analysis: The Maker shows the importance of time and how we use it to have the best possible outcome. The moral of the film is to live our lives to the fullest extent having fun and enjoying the experiences along with the journey.

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The Maker - This beautiful animation will shatter your heart

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Content warning: depiction of death

Keywords: family struggle, end of life care, relationships

Description: a grounded and humane animation showing two brothers struggling to care for their elderly mother. It combines life size stop motion with real props, creating an impressive animation with depth.
Directed by Daisy Jacobs, she was massively influenced by watching her grandmother paint, who then later passed away from Parkinson's disease.

Analysis: This is a very personal and emotive short film that captures a difficult dynamic between brothers and mother. Emotions are communicated through exaggerated visuals, such as enlarging in size when angry or the feeling of vacuuming everything away after confrontation. Characters can be introduced very quickly, with short scripts providing a depiction of the character's nature (e.g. talking about sex and putting your mum in a care home in the same conversation=arrogant depiction).

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When it comes to acclaim in the short film world, prestige doesn't come much bigger than seeing your film win a BAFTA and get nominated for an OSCAR (unless of course it won!). Add to this awards at dozens of film festivals worldwide and it's easy to see why Daisy Jacobs' treasured National Film and Television School Animation The Bigger Picture is regarded with such esteem.

The story of two brothers struggling with the care of their elderly mother, Jacobs was motivated to create her film after witnessing the death of her inspirational Grandmother Eileen to Parkinson's disease. A big influence on her life, the director would watch her Gran paint from an early age and admits it was part of a "wonderful childhood" that saw her grow up "in a house full of paint and canvases, where art was an entirely normal part of life".

On a narrative level it might feel like you've experienced similar stories to The Bigger Picture before, but where this 7-minute film really feels remarkable is in its craft. Creatively told through combining life-size animation with similar-sized sets and real-world props, the scale of the piece is not only impressive, but it really helps highlight the personal, and very real, weight behind the story.

Jacobs' follow-up short to The Bigger Picture, The Full Story, builds on the life-size technique of her previous film by adding more characters, more detail and even real actors into the mix. Spanning the decades of the 1970s & 80s, the film is once again set in a family household and has just won the 'Best Short Film' award at the 2017 Edinburgh International Film Festival.

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The Bigger Picture by Daisy Jacobs | Short Film | Animation

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When it comes to acclaim in the short film world, prestige doesn't come much bigger than seeing your film win a BAFTA and get nominated for an OSCAR (unless of course it won!). Add to this awards at dozens of film festivals worldwide and it's easy to see why Daisy Jacobs' treasured National Film and Television School Animation The Bigger Picture is regarded with such esteem.

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Content warning: n/a

Keywords: Animation, School-bullying, Child abuse

Description: A quiet boy Noah is bullied by his classmates. The protagonist Raquelle tries to help him and seeks help from her teacher. Unfortunately, her classmates found out that she was informing on the teacher. After that, she began to be isolated by her classmates. The internet was full of insulting attacks on her and Nolan. She tries to connect with Nolan, sending him, 'are you okay?' They eventually become friends and move on from the violence in school.

Analysis: This is a realistic animated short film. But the author visualises the sadness and depression experienced by the victims of school violence. The purple slime is first seen on Noah. After the main character suffers the same isolation as Noah, she is surrounded by purple sticky slimes. Even though I haven't suffered from school violence, I could feel the protagonists' hopeless situation at this point.

As the purple slime grows and immerses Noah, we can feel the depths of despair he has fallen into. And then Raquelle sends 'are you okay?', a simple phrase, but for Noah, it is a salvation, a ray of light in the abyss. In the end, Noah and Raquelle become friends, become each other's salvation, and the purple sticky liquid disappears.

Children are born into a world surrounded by the possibilities of communities. Talking together is one way to make community. A disappointment in a community does not mean the end of life. There will always be someone who understands and cares for you.

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are you okay? | Award-Winning Short Film

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Sibling Rivalry - Dangerous Relations - First Light

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RToVdW307vE

content warning: school, bullying, tongue in cheek violence

keywords: school, diary, privacy

The film follows a girl getting dumped by text after her brother leaks her diary to the school, she is made fun of for this and fights with her brother.

I think this is such a perfect look into  high school life in the UK in the 2000s, the half-animated style along with the grungy soundtrack. It really reminds me of  DIY punk zines such as Sniffin Glue. In the sense of care, it shows how, especially when you’re a teenager, you care so much about what people think. In the end, she’s shown fighting with her brother on a dingy hitting each other with animated weapons, I think this shows self awareness in the very teenage situation. I think this is definitely something the creators of this would look back on and cringe but i think its a great look into hormonal teenage angst.

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Sibling rivalry - Dangerous Relations - First Light

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https://mubi.com/films/blight

content warnings: loss of housing

keywords: housing, gentrification, soundtrack, demolition

The film shows the demolition of homes to create the M11 in East London in the mid '90s. It includes a soundtrack from composer Jocelyn Pook that creates an immersive atmosphere, using some of the residents' testimonies to create music, it includes harsh sounds of the demolition alongside the music.

The high saturation really contrasts the bleak reality of peoples homes being taken away from them, the testimonies from residents talking about features from their homes, the colour of the walls, the old ‘50s fireplaces, stating when they moved in, their date of birth, their house numbers, and how old they are all overlapping creates the sense of chaos reminiscent to being forcefully moved out of your home. The corrugated iron shutting them off from the site where their homes were, and the colourful moving vans flashing past, showing how quickly they were rushed out.
“Kill the spiders” can be heard throughout, we hear it at the start as an anecdote of a woman’s husband killing the spiders that she’s scared of in the bathroom, but as it progresses and we see the houses torn down, flattened into rubble, we see the council and their lack of care of how they are treating the residents of these homes as the spiders they are killing to build the M11 Link road.

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John Smith United Kingdom, 1996

As homes are razed to the ground, a mural for The Exorcist is revealed amid the ruins. In John Smith's Blight, horror hangs over these images of gentrification, and the destruction of a community is loudly lamented in a moving, discordant composition by Stanley Kubrick collaborator Jocelyn Pook.

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Blight is a collaboration between filmmaker John Smith and composer Jocelyn Pook. It revolves around the building of the M11 Link Road in London, which provoked a long campaign by local residents to protect their homes from demolition.

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https://mubi.com/films/an-optical-poem

Content warnings: Flashing imagery

Key words: association, imagination, feeling, music, sound, colour, graphic, shapes, geometric, intuitive, rhythm

Description: An Optical Poem is an abstract stop-motion animation, featuring abstract forms and dancing geometric shapes that pop, sway and dart across the screen, all in time to Franz Liszt’s 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. It is a paper-made experiment, designed to replicate what goes on in the human psyche while listening to music.

Analysis: An Optical Poem is an abstract, intuitive interpretation of music and how people experience listening to music and rhythm. The meaning of this film is something you can interpret in your own way. It's quite a simple concept, you only see shapes that dance and move to the beat of the music, but you immediately understand what you're looking at. It feels familiar and recognisable.

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Avant-Garde, Animation, Short

Synopsis

An abstract piece of stop-motion history, featuring abstract forms and dancing geometric shapes that pop, sway and dart across the screen, all in time to Franz Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. A paper-made experiment, designed to replicate what goes on in the human psyche while listening to music.

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An abstract piece of stop-motion history, featuring abstract forms and dancing geometric shapes that pop, sway and dart across the screen, all in time to Franz Liszt's 2nd Hungarian Rhapsody. A paper-made experiment, designed to replicate what goes on in the human psyche while listening to music.

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Keywords: dystopian, philosophical, humanistic

Description: An independent short animated film that takes place in a dystopian world. It has 3 characters, a girl that appears in the beginning and in the middle followed up by a man with a red eye and ending with a human like entity. This is a very fast paced and dense piece packed with visual information.

Analysis: This video is very meditative and highly symbolical. It uses intricate illustration techniques that appear to be hand drawn, using texture and grain. The animation feels very natural showing detailed and fluid movement and dynamic facial expressions. The author used colours and hue contrast brilliantly, playing with complementary tones and vivid saturated shades. The story is rather abstract and somewhat lacks explicit content as this is narrated by visual cues rather than voice lines or dialogue. The meaning behind the video can feel challenging to grasp at first glance. My interpretation of it is based around the state of our society and who we are as humans. This can be seen in the last scene where a crowd of people observe a mysterious alien like figure with human characteristics. The author does not use an intuitive storytelling, he rather reveals glimpses of elements crucial to the general understanding of it. He methodically picks what he intends to show, leaving a footprint of small visual clues and cryptic hidden messages to uncover. He raises various questions leaving the spectator with very few answers. It leaves room for interpretation and speculation, which is something that I find very intriguing as this seems to be an introspective video simultaneously.

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https://www.shortoftheweek.com/2023/03/30/ecorce-peel/

Content Warnings: References to death, end of life, medical institutions

Keywords: fragments, reality, life, afterlife, end of life, goodbye, death, association, imagination, without judgment, detail, phase, display

Description: Ecorce is a short film about the senior years of life spent in a retirement home. How we spend our final years on this planet is something we’ll all have to consider at some point. The one thing no one hopes for, is to end up in a retirement home, yet thousands do. Ecorce is a 15-minute short film that blends a sketchbook animation style with an observational documentary approach.

Analysis: Ecorce presents an honest and detailed account of the last phase of life, often spent in nursing homes. The film shows short fragments that show the reality of growing older and being at the end of your life. It's a observation without judgment and with room for association and interpretation. It is a close-up of a life that still feels far away for many of us and a phase of life that is seen as something that will never happen. The images are slow, detailed and give an honest insight into the world of retirement homes.

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Close your eyes and picture the senior years of your life. What do you envision? Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, how we spend our final years on this planet is something we'll all have to consider at some point. The one thing no-one hopes for, is to end-up in a retirement home...yet thousands do. Taking us inside one such establishment is Samuel Patthey & Silvain Monney's beautiful animation Ecorce (Peel) - a 15-minute short that blends a sketchbook animation style with an observational documentary approach.

Winner of the Best Short Cristal at Annecy 2021, Ecorce opens with a slow-pan along some aging skin, before we cut to a silhouetted figure slowly stepping around a white space. Two-minutes have passed before we're fully immersed in the care home environment. If you're thinking that's too long, you need to consider the subject matter here. Patthey and Monney seem as intent on capturing the IRL pace of their setting, as they are on creating an entertaining film. In fact, the more time you spend in the world of Ecorce, and its retirement home setting, you come to think of the pacing as a character in itself.

"We wanted to capture what is time for those residents" Patthey explains in this interview on Zippy Frames. "So, we stretched the scene as long as possible, and tried to get the feeling and rhythm of time. We really fought against the rules of animation, where you supposedly need movement and something to happen to the left and to the right of the frame. Here, it was very important for us to capture a very simple moment and action, which can be boring to animate; but they had to be like that".

It's reported that time is perceived as moving quicker the older we get and time is obviously an important factor in Ecorce, but not just because of the subject matter. Generally, in the world of shorts you expect narratives to unravel quicker than they would in the longer run-times of features, but Patthey and Monney's film proves there can be successful exceptions to this assumption. Focused on the world of the elderly, where its inhabitants may observe time as moving quicker, the truth is that from outside their action appear slow and laboured. With that in mind, it would have been jarring for the directors to present a more vivacious animation and instead their leisurely approach captures this world with real tenderness and empathy. Qualities that can often be lacking when young people create films about seniors.

It's not just the film's tempo that pays fitting tribute to its subject matter though, with the restrained animation style also feeling complimentary to the themes of the short. Much like the people depicted in Ecorce, this a film with a lot less movement than its contemporaries, the sketchbook style (also seen in Patthey's previous short Travelogue Tel Aviv) doing a stellar job of immersing us in the environment. Patthey and Monney's production doesn't seem at all interested in dramatising events, what it is instead doing is trying to capture a genuine snapshot of a world often portrayed with a skewed perspective. Placing us as both an inhabitant and an outsider, observing events, again the animation style helps to heighten the empathetic impact of the film. These aren't just characters captured on screen, they feel real and so does their situation and there's true power in that.

As the film concludes and we return again to the slow panning shot traversing the crevasses of an aging hand, it's a fitting end to a thought-provoking short. As that wrinkled appendage fades from the screen, it provides a welcome reminder of the impermanence of life, something many may struggle to even consider without the onset of anxiety, but a line of thought some consider vital in making the most of our limited time.

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Ecorce (Peel) a short film by Samuel Patthey & Silvain Monney

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Close your eyes and picture the senior years of your life. What do you envision? Whether you believe in an afterlife or not, how we spend our final years on this planet is something we'll all have to consider at some point. The one thing no-one hopes for, is to end-up in a retirement home...yet thousands do.

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Content Warning: n/a non-applicable

Key words: Ignorance, Escape, Bookstore, Informing.

Description: A story about a girl who tries to escape the reality of her life by diving deep into her own mind. She finds herself in an old bookstore, where she feels pulled to a certain book. In this place she comes across a guy, Hale, that is trying to tell her something. Something she doesn't know. Or at least that's what she thinks. The boy keeps approaching the girl asking her if she needs any help choosing a book, and the girl makes it clear every time that she is fine by herself. The director of the film is Jacinta Alves and I think this work is great as the audience can feel the intimacy and it makes it feel isolated and just adds to the overall aesthetic.

Analysis: The film communicates the ideas effectively by allowing the actor to have a 1:1 line to the audience even if it’s a couple of words because not all films have a similar scene. The first-person perspective helps the audience understand the character and get to know them better. From this short film I learnt that you shouldn’t always trust or believe in a stranger especially if you feel like you are in an uncomfortable situation.  The film can be less successful due to the director and how they have the same angle/perspective when showing each character, as I feel like they could of made the most out of the library when recording as they are constantly standing by a shelf or they could of recorded from a really high angle to show e.g  from a birds eye view as it could of made the audience think that the boy was making the girl uncomfortable in a way and she looked uninterested.

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Danny Fox by Jack Whitefield

- Painting, Documentary, Super 8, London

- Short film following Danny Fox around London and his studio, promo for his exhibition in 2015. I think the filming is really beautiful and gives a small insight to his life, peering behind the scenes of the artist. Showing his studio and surroundings that inspire his work, interacting with people and slowing down.

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'As He Bowed His Head To Drink' an exhibition by Danny Fox

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As He Bowed His Head To Drink

An exhibition by Danny Fox

Open from November 17th

The Redfern Gallery
20 Cork Street
London


Film and Music by Jack Whitefield

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Content Warnings: Language, Racism

Keywords: Love, Immigrants, Family, Racism, Class

Description: Americanistan is a true story about the creator, Ali Godil's, parents getting an arranged marriage, moving to the US and going on their first date. In the vibrant film, the young couple—Salim and Iman —are practically strangers when they meet near Portland International Airport.
As Godil’s parents did at the time, Iman and Salim have an arranged marriage, and she’s joining her husband in the U.S. where they navigate their expectations for new love in a strange land, racist airport interactions, and dynamic of class. The film follows them on their first-date that Salim promises Iman a "classy, American restauraunt with all the delicacies of the White man," that ends up being the epitome of American cuisine - McDonalds. Iman is clearly unimpressed, until she opens her heart, gives it a chance, and the two bond over shared fish fillet burgers and share a sweet moment dancing outside their car.

Analysis: This short film begs the question: When faced with such great sacrifice and courage as moving to another country and giving your life to a stranger, what do you choose to hold onto and what do you surrender? At its core this is a story of sacrifice and belonging and what that means in the context of an immigrant in America faced with the all pervasive pressures of culture and capitalism. The film aims to expand the understanding of what it means to be "American" through the lens of Pakistani immigrants, juxtaposing the American dream from abroad versus the American reality while actually living there. It explores the dimensions of class, imperialism and alienation that accompany the immigrant experience in the United States.

The film pivots from period comedy to romantic reverie to intimate human drama very effectively, keeping the audience engaged and humored throughout. It also plays with color very effectively— golds and reds  evoke passion and prosperity, while sending a humorous and subtle nod to McDonald’s. The coloring and cinematography also nod to ‘90s Bollywood classics, really highlighting and honoring the culture it identifies with.

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It follows a rich girl from Pakistan must adjust to lower class American life after getting an arranged marriage. After leaving her family, Iman sacrifices everything by coming to America.

OFFICIAL SELECTION

Brooklyn Film Festival
Oregon Short Film Festival (Best Director)
Tasveer Film Festival
Cine/Seen Film Festival
Jamyat Film Festival

She is forced to confront new expectations from her husband, Salim, and struggle with the roles and dynamics of what life is really like in the land of opportunity versus the fantasy in her head.Shot on location in Portland, Oregon.

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HIDARI (Pilot Film) - The Stop-Motion Samurai Film

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HIDARI (Pilot Film) - The Stop-Motion Samurai Film

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Content warning:
Violence
Aggresion
Flashing Images

Keywords:

Animation
stop motion
hand made
community
family
enemies

Description:
A short pilot film about a samurai. The film indulges the fantastical elements of comic book style animated fight sequences through practical effects. The film has no storyline as such but more explores the possibilities that this style of film making could lead too. The style is incredibly enticing and equally impressive as we enjure the mastery of the characters art form through the films creators.

Analysis:

This film highlights the possibilities of animated film, there is an essence of realism through manmade props that digital animation can not grasp. Textures seen in our day to day utiliezed to create ficticious and magestic scenes can bring a grounding to a project. We are able to connect to the beauty of it, in a way that is we are not used to seeing. Unlike digital animation it is far more difficult to recreate human expression (facial expression and movement). Which can distract the viewer or even prevent a conection to the characters that is often integral in drawing into the story. However recognition of such and playing to the strengths of the art form could lead to a beautiful and orignial animated screen play, which this pilot film acheives.

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HIDARI (Pilot Film) - The Stop-Motion Samurai Film

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Content Warning: n/a non-applicable

Key words: Ignorance, Escape, Bookstore, Informing.

Description: A story about a girl who tries to escape the reality of her life by diving deep into her own mind. She finds herself in an old bookstore, where she feels pulled to a certain book. In this place she comes across a guy, Hale, that is trying to tell her something. Something she doesn't know. Or at least that's what she thinks. The boy keeps approaching the girl asking her if she needs any help choosing a book, and the girl makes it clear every time that she is fine by herself. The director of the film is Jacinta Alves and I think this work is great as the audience can feel the intimacy and it makes it feel isolated and just adds to the overall aesthetic.

Analysis: The film communicates the ideas effectively by allowing the actor to have a 1:1 line to the audience even if it’s a couple of words because not all films have a similar scene. The first-person perspective helps the audience understand the character and get to know them better. From this short film I learnt that you shouldn’t always trust or believe in a stranger especially if you feel like you are in an uncomfortable situation.  The film can be less successful due to the director and how they have the same angle/perspective when showing each character, as I feel like they could of made the most out of the library when recording as they are constantly standing by a shelf or they could of recorded from a really high angle to show e.g  from a birds eye view as it could of made the audience think that the boy was making the girl uncomfortable in a way and she looked uninterested.

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Keywords: Gender cognitive impairment, pain

Description: The girl wakes up from bed and walks into the toilet, sees a boy in the mirror who turns into a girl, and the girl breaks the mirror. Sits down and cries.

Analysis: This short film is only 40 seconds long and uses stop-motion animation and consists of two colors. Pink and blue, I think the colors were chosen due to the popular stereotype that boys use blue and girls use pink. The use of color makes the film richer and causes the audience to think in one more direction. People with gender cognitive disorder are still a minority in the public eye, and more needs to happen to bring awareness to the diversity of the world. This group in particular is not hurting anyone and should not be harmed.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nRwYWVxjRU

Content Warnings: References to abuse, violence, suicide, deportation

Keywords: Stop motion, animation, trust, love, growing up, chosen family

Description: After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to an orphanage with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.

Analysis: The film is about learning to trust and love others, the people you didn't grow up with but who could become your (chosen) family. The film is designed as a children's animation, but the theme of the film is quite heavy. This combination works well because like the childlike animation, a child has an innocent and honest appearance and there can be more depth in it at the same time. Because it is about a child you get a glimpse into the head of a child again which feels touching and familiar.

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My Life as a Zucchini Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Animated Movie

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Content warning: Blood, mentions of cannibalism and the death of an animal

Key words: Crime, deadpan, dark comedy, revenge, bizarre

Description: Three siblings live in a tent after their house is overtaken by hamsters, indirectly caused by the careless act of a famous celebrity, Lee Hyori. They get by by selling ‘blood letters’, written with the real blood of one of their brothers, who suffers an illness which causes his nose to bleed excessively. One day, they are hired by Lee Hyori, who wishes to write an apology letter in blood. It is revealed that she has cannibalised her neighbour in an act of revenge.

Analysis: The literal Korean title of this film translates to ‘Human Scented Lee Hyori’. The phrase ‘human-scented’ refers to when people of a certain status (eg. Celebrities) show a relatable, humane side of themselves in comparison to their superstar personas. However, throughout the course of the film, it’s revealed that Lee Hyori is ‘human-scented’ due to the fact that she has literally eaten a human body. The bizarre plot points of this film are effectively showcased through deadpan humour, quick cuts, and morbid imagery. Though on the surface, it’s a silly and unbelievable story, the film explores issues like the responsibility of celebrities and how they need to take care in their actions and words to avoid having negative impacts on those who live more ordinary lives. Additionally, the deeper meaning of ‘blood letters’ and how they are made in an act of deathly determination, often requiring one to wound themselves to draw blood. The irony of an apology letter made from nosebleeds suggests that the apology is not genuine at all, highlighting the vapid and performative aspects of Lee Hyori’s character.

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A Glimpse of Lee Hyori : short movie by Yi Ikseop & Koo Kyohwan

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Keyword: Accompany/ Love/ Healing

Description: This is a romantic story between a young rich girl who has suffered from leg problems and a little window cleaner boy on a skyscraper in New York in 1950. This story happened in winter, the girl and the boy made many lovely things out of snow and gave them to the girl.But one day, the boy fell from the window. In order to save the boy, the girl overcame her leg problem and stood up.Finally they had a happy ending.It is an animated short film, and the colour and painting style of this animation are very comfortable to watch.

Analysis: The style of this short film is healing, and the story is an idealized content.Most of the entire short film is based on warm colours, such as pink and purple, these colours will give the audience a strong visual effect and feeling.The background of this short film also reflects some absurd "conditions" for love in contemporary society, such as family, wealth and so on.These absurd conditions make many contemporary young people feel fear, anxiety and some negative emotions about love.Perhaps the creator wants to reduce the impact of the absurd conditions through this short film, and at the same time, the creator also wants to give some encouragement and hope to vulnerable groups such as the disabled.

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Across the Window Pane | Animated Short Film | Thesis 2021 | HELEN JEE

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Content warnings:

Mentions of a car accident, illness of a child

Keywords: Kindness, commute, empathy, slice of life, summer

Description:

The film follows two bus drivers throughout the week. They have various interactions with their passengers, including chasing a small child who repetitively vandalises the windows, trying to convince people to give their seat up for a pregnant woman, and accusing a passenger of not paying the bus fare. However, the bus drivers showcase acts of kindness from these interactions; they personally return a lost box of crayons to the young vandal, stop the bus to find a seat for the pregnant woman, and pick up the dropped items of the passenger who was wrongly accused. The last line of the film translates to: 'To the drivers who work from the crack of dawn to the late hours of night to help us on our journeys, we sincerely thank you.'

Analysis:

The film depicts the very ordinary, daily lives of those who take the bus. Though there aren’t any major plot points, the interactions people have with each other during their short journeys to work, school, or home present a comforting experience. The main theme is a famous Korean song from the 80s, which sets a nostalgic and heartwarming backdrop for the film. For most, their daily commutes are repetitive and tiring, but this film strives to highlight the hard work of bus drivers who make peoples’ journeys shorter and more comfortable. The colour palette stays light throughout, and we don’t linger on one character’s story (aside from the two drivers) for more than a few minutes. Like on a bus, new stories come and go with each stop.

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[Korean Short film] Summer, bus_[단편영화] 여름, 버스 / Turn on Subtitle pls _PYX OFFICIAL

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- Focusses on caring for a pair of new smart shoes and dealing with loosing them.
- Looks at class and how poverty has an impact on the level of care shown towards clothes and shoes in particular.

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فيلم  فرده شمال ( The Other Pair ) 2013  .. اخراج  ساره رزيق

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Content Warning:
Clay gore, Slapstick humour, Clay violence

Keywords:
Stop-motion
Clay
Disease
The Dimes
Low budget

Description:
Klay world was an independent stop-motion series uploaded to YouTube by Robert Benfor characterised by Benfor's design for humans, which most resemble hand people. The content is quite short and often quite silly, with no especially serious topics being explored and no hidden themes directing the show apart from war, violence and affiliation / community relations.

Analysis:

This episode has been selected not because of it's plot necessarily, but more as a showcase of the series. I found the character's design satisfying to look at, and was easily replicable as a child, inspiring me to make Klay men of my own. I also enjoy the characters anatomy considering their slightly awkward figure and how the artist managed to differentiate characters while keeping the entire show in style and providing consistent entertainment at a low budget. I think this series is interesting to explore due to the relationship between the  budget and the animation, and how something which would normally be considered cheap or inappropriate, such as using pencils for swords, or a book as a cave, added to it's appeal while allowing the artist to continue working at a low budget, making klay world "sustainable" Also, the artist typically uses fresh clay, which affects the animation in that the characters seem to droop or tilt in certain scenes, which though it appear awkward also gives these clay characters a living feeling.

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Content warning: n/a

Keywords: Christmas, twist, emotional

Description: An older man dates a mysterious guest on Christmas Eve. After enjoying a lovely meal, they dance along with the music. In the end, as the change of perspective, this man is dancing with nobody. He imagines that he is dancing with his deceased wife. True love never ends, it’s what keeps people moving forward. Finally, he steps out of sadness and joins the ballroom dancing party.

Analysis: The structure of this short film is fascinating. It begins by setting the scene at Christmas, a time of warmth and togetherness. From the first viewpoint of the main character, it is clear that he takes this date seriously with a series of actions of decorating the room and preparing the dinner.

Then, the camera shifts, and we enter the perspective of the person, the main character is dating. Without too many editing tricks, it is only through his subtle expressions and gestures that we can feel his love for this mysterious guest.

The intimate social dance makes us wonder about the relationship between the guest and the protagonist. But as the camera and the perspective change, it becomes clear that this is all in the main character's imagination. There is no such guest. The main character is lonely and isolated against the warm Christmas decorations.

The camera stops at a photograph with the message ‘even if the music stops, keep on dancing. I love you, Sonia.’ The mystery is solved. The main character is remembering his deceased wife.

It is a very simple film with no fancy editing techniques, but it is very moving.

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- Looks into the care factor within Modernist fashion

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Content warning: Slight flicker, virtual singer

Keywords: Music video, Dream, The confusion of life and the persistence of dreams, Virtual Signer (Vocaloid), Japanese

Description: A story about an artist who examines himself, struggles with life, and chooses between dreams and reality.

Analysis: That’s an animation music video from my favourite composer and illustrator. I love the gorgeous changing and the use of colours by this illustrator, the music style from this composer with funny melodies, and the virtual singers with interesting voices.

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∴煮ル果実「命辛辛」with Flower 【Official】ｰ For dear life

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Content warning: Violence, blood, wound

Keywords: future, technic, anti-utopia, friend, loneliness, interpersonal communication

Description: The story happened in the future world. Super VR can help people find their true virtual friends, enrich their life anytime, anywhere, and fulfil all their fantasies.

Analysis: That’s the anti-utopia short anime I found during high school. At that time, I was confused by my interpersonal relationship. I didn't know how to face my friends and build equal relationships with them. At this time, I saw this short film and realised that I was actually lonely; I have been looking for friends who really fit me and make me comfortable. If I can get the technique in this film, I will definitely use it. But I cannot get anything from it, just avoiding social dilemmas and ending up alone. Technology itself is not right or wrong, everything depends on how humans use it.

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Best Friend - Animation Short Film 2018 - GOBELINS

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Jan Švankmajer-Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameneho Huberta(1971)

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Jan Švankmajer-Zvahlav aneb Saticky Slameneho Huberta(1971)

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Content warning: weird dolls, living worms, cannibalism, blood, jump scare

Keywords: Dolls, fantasy, stop motion, innocence, quirky, irony

Description: My favourite short film from Jan Švankmajer, satirise the Nature of Society and the Death of Innocence. This short film uses a lot of metaphor and arcane repetition, and the whole video is eerie and creepy, so if you feel any discomfort, make sure you exit this video in time.

Analysis: The reason I like Jan Švankmajer is I can always get something new from it every time I review his short films. He is so good at using intentionality and absolute master of stop-motion animation. His works are classic both in terms of picture and content, and I especially like his creative ideas, such as how to make dolls into pieces of paper, how to use dolls to represent a man-eating society, and how to use knives to represent self-destruction.

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Content Warning: contains scenes depicting emotional distress.

Keywords: Short film, psychological drama, grief, haunting, atmospheric

Description:
"Requiem" is a captivating short film that delves into the depths of grief and explores the emotional journey of its protagonist, portrayed brilliantly by Bella Ramsey. Through haunting visuals and a captivating performance, the film takes viewers on a deeply introspective and atmospheric experience.

Analysis:
"Requiem" showcases the power of visual storytelling to convey profound emotions. The film effectively captures the overwhelming nature of grief through its cinematography and atmospheric setting. The use of lighting, color, and sound design creates a haunting and somber atmosphere that draws viewers into the protagonist's emotional turmoil.

Bella Ramsey delivers a compelling performance, immersing herself in the role and portraying the complexities of grief with depth and authenticity. Her nuanced expressions and subtle gestures communicate a profound sense of loss, allowing viewers to empathize with her character's journey.

The film's strength lies in its ability to convey the universal experience of grief through visual metaphors and symbolic imagery. The use of symbolism and surreal elements enhances the storytelling, creating an ethereal and thought-provoking narrative. Through its non-linear structure, "Requiem" explores the fragmented nature of memory and the emotional rollercoaster that accompanies the grieving process.

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Horror Short Film "Requiem" | ALTER | Starring Bella Ramsey

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Content Warning: N/A
Keywords: Childish Fear, Perspective, Misunderstanding

Description: This is an animated short film about a boy who loses his glasses in a dark alley. He is too scared to retrieve them and turns to leave. Then, a huge scary shadow appears and begins chasing him. He gets cornered and grabs a broken bottle in self defense. When the monster appears, it turns out to be a small dog who followed him to return his glasses.

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1.Content warning: slight violence

2.Keywords: transgender, gender identity, transphobic, neighborhood

3.Description: It is a short film about a transgender woman (Chole) who finds out that her neighbor (Penny) is transphobic. The film delves into some of the modern depictions of transphobia and explores friendship, solidarity and conflict between two very different women. At first, Penny doesn’t like Chole, even hate. Penny can’t understand Chole. She thinks they are different totally and Chole can’t be a real woman. But after Penny saw Chole’s live and violence from partner, she understood her as a real woman finally. Created by an entirely trans cast and crew.

4.Analysis: This film is a focus on transgender people. Transgender people are faced with discrimination, violence and other harm in their lives. This film helps the audience to understand transgender people correctly and tries to show people that transgender people are also normal people and are not special. Sometimes, they need protection too. I think its disadvantage is that Penny's attitude changes too quickly before and after. This may be due to the length of the film. The film is mainly narrative shots: close shots and medium shots. Mostly close shots, showing their conversations. I read “Wings For the Ship” in this week, the are similar. It talks about transgender’s love and violence that the writer as a women faced and Jordan as a man (and as a woman in the past) faced. Trans and trans, their love is a kind of care. This text also mentions violence, so I think violence is one of the easiest and most widely practiced harm that people do.

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The Wicked Shit by Joshua Gordon

- Violence/fighting

- Super 8, Underground, Individuals, Alternative, Outskirts, Documentary

- The film documents 'The Gathering of the Juggalos' a festival in Ohio where fans of Insane Clown Posse come together.

- An interesting and alternative insight into the underground community of Juggalos and Juggalettes. Joshua gordon wanted to make ‘more of a moving photo book than a traditional documentary’ and I think this is what makes the film so effective - each shot is like a photograph. It presents the sub-culture in a different way and captures the subtleties and beautiful imagery within it

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The Gathering of the Juggalos in Scenes: The Wicked Shit

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Content warning: n/a

Key words: family, growing up, sexuality, home, university

Description: A young man returns home after dropping out of university and must have a tough conversation with his Dad about why he left. The film explores the tensions of family and the undeniable familial love that cannot fade even when somebody gets hurt. It touches upon how it feels to grow older and make the wrong decisions but learn from them.

Analysis: This film explores the tensions but unconditional love that take place in many families. The film is shot in a 4:3 aspect ratios which means that there is a greater focus on characters as they dominate most of the shot, even when at a wide angle. This allows the audience to empathise more with them and to see their emotions more clearly. The film begins in an arcade and then moves outside by the beach when the Dad asks the son why he has come home. This switch happens when there is suddenly clarity and the elephant in the room has been acknowledged – we move from a noisy place with lots of distractions to somewhere where the conversation is the main focus. Again later in the film, one the main conversation has been had, they move to a car which signifies a movement in the situation and that it will keep moving for a while before it settles. Alongside this use of setting to give subtle emphasis to the emotional placement in the dialogue, colour is also used to signify the tone of the scenes. Bright and colourful when they are pretending to get on, natural tones when all is laid bare and they have an argument, and then dark and cosy once the main conversation has been had and they begin to warm up to each other again. These uses of symbolism add to the overall tone of the film and are something that I would certainly consider when making my own film.

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(2022) When Conor returns home after leaving uni, an awkward reunion with his dad awaits

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Content Warning: Death

Keywords: Loneliness, Old age, care

Description: Brutally sad short film about an old lady who receives a robot to care for her from her son who doesn't come to visit her. She is quite unhappy at first, but the two soon build a very sweet relationship and care for each other. She changes his batteries when it runs low. The robot (who has childish mannerisms) wishes to go to the circus, and the old lady buys tickets for him as a surprise. The day of the circus, the robot goes to grab her hat, and when he returns, the old lady has passed. He tries to revive her by stuffing batteries into her pockets.

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CGI 3D Animated Short "Changing Batteries" - by Sunny Side Up Productions

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Content warning: n/a

Key words: Sexuality, Race, Emotion, Care

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The heroic dance that combines martial arts, opera, and Ming dynasty chivalry

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Content Warning: scenes of animal cruelty.

description :
"Save Ralph" is a powerful and moving short film that uses stop-motion animation to address the issue of animal testing. The film tells the story of Ralph, a character who represents the innocent animals suffering in the cosmetic industry. Through its emotional storytelling and impactful visuals, "Save Ralph" aims to raise awareness and inspire action.

Analysis:
"Save Ralph" impressively employs stop-motion animation to create a visually compelling and emotionally resonant narrative. The film's attention to detail and careful craftsmanship make Ralph, the main character, come alive and instantly connect with the audience's emotions. Ralph serves as a symbol of the countless animals that endure cruelty in cosmetic testing.

The film cleverly combines humor and heart-wrenching moments to engage viewers while delivering its powerful message. By showing Ralph's daily life alongside interviews that reveal the reality of animal testing, "Save Ralph" creates a strong emotional contrast. It effectively highlights the unnecessary suffering animals endure in the cosmetic industry.

The voice acting, featuring talented actors, adds depth and authenticity to the characters, enhancing the film's impact. Each voice performance captures the emotions experienced by Ralph and the other animals involved. The dialogue is informative and poignant, offering valuable insights into the issue of animal testing.

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Save Ralph - A short film with Taika Waititi

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Content warnings: family issues/estranged father-daughter relationship

Keywords: Family, estranged relationships, documentary, animation

Description: While away for a year, a father and his daughter remained close by sending each other letters. This correspondence meant that they didn’t drift apart and allowed them to be vulnerable with each other, while separated physically. Now estranged, filmmaker Diana Cam Van Nguyen tries to mend her strained relationship with her father, by going back to that medium that allowed them to be so emotionally honest in the past.

Analysis:

The voice-over allows the filmmaker to be raw and authentic with her own story. As all the dialogue in the film stems from those letters, the emotional power of the correspondence drives the film and gives it momentum, while the visual style adds an undeniably effective depth to the film. There is cleverness, humor and playfulness in the construction of the images, as the animation recreates the physical and emotional environments she is in, especially when it describes her childhood. The story in combination with the visuals work really well, making it emotional but still light and well-paced. I think the combination of real images and the use of animation and stop motion is a really interesting style, which I will definitely keep in mind while moving forward.

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Film Fest Gent // World Soundtrack Awards

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Love, Dad | Trailer | Film Fest Gent 2021

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Content Warning:
N/A

Keywords:
Recovery, Self-care, Community, Loneliness

Description:
Gus DeVylder creates an emotional and motivating short film using no verbal dialogue at all. He illustrates the journey of self-care after a sports injury. The piece takes you through the steps and process of how an injuries can be isolating and take you away from a caring community.

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Content Warning: N/A
Keywords: Loneliness, Strangers, Voyeuristic, Family Relationship
Description: Woman is a taxi driver and often looks into the lives of many different people, but remains alone in her own. She sees happy couples, mothers and their children, etc. Her son comes to visit her and they have a good time catching up, but she has to drop him off at his father's (presumably her ex-husband's) house. She is left alone again.

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Content warnings: N/A

Keywords: documentary, care, growing up, motherhood, love

Description: When her only son moved away to go to college, like many other moms, Czesława found herself an empty nester. But when her son came back home for Summer break, he discovered that his mother had adopted a baby squirrel. This is the true story of director Tom Krawczyk, his mother and Duduś the squirrel. Krawczyk captures the bond his mother built with the wild animal and how also this new family member has to leave the nest at some point to live its life outside the house.

Analysis:

With Krawczyk managing to disappear behind the camera, it allows the short’s participants: his mother, his step-father, Duduś AND Louie the Cat, to go about their days in the most normal way. It’s impressive how it managed to capture the emotional bond with sincerity, never feeling performative for the camera or trying to manufacture moments. Santangelo’s edit brings an extra layer of entertainment to the film, mixing humor and pathos, and painting a perfect picture of motherhood, until accepting, as devastating as it is, that once more she will have to let him go too. My Duduś is nine minutes of pure, honest love with Czesława and her small furry child at the center. Not only is this short film about care; showing love by taking care of someone, but is a great example of how to make something emotional without it being fake or too much. It is just a really cute and enjoyable short film and a great metaphor for motherhood.

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During the summer of 2020, I returned home to Chicago during a break from my studies at the Łódź Film School in Poland. When I got there, my mother quietly walked me into a room where she gently pulled a strange, hairless creature out of a shoe box. It looked as if it had plummeted to earth from another planet.

"He's sleeping," she whispered as she opened the box. A tiny head peeked out from the mountain of towels, blankets and a homemade heating pad made out of a used white sock and rice. "What is that?" I asked. I squinted my eyes as I gently moved the blanket to expose the animal's torso. "Is that a squirrel?" I looked over at her, and even though it was dark, her beaming smile lit up the room. "Yes," she nodded.

My mother had found the baby squirrel abandoned in her yard. She contacted animal shelters nearby, but they were struggling to take in more animals during the Covid pandemic, so my mother began caring for him herself. My intuition told me to pick up a camera. I knew something special was happening. My mother, a Polish immigrant who had raised me by herself, had been dealing with her newly empty nest after I left for school, and I knew the joy that raising the squirrel would bring her.

After returning to Poland, I saw my mother raise him as she raised me - with meticulous love and care. But he was a wild animal, and eventually my mother had to do what all mothers do: let her child go out into the world. Here, I document their journey together.

- Director Tom Krawczyk

A film by Tom Krawczyk
Featuring Czesława Krawczyk-Miczejko, Duduś the Squirrel, Kazimierz Miczejko and Louie the Cat
Produced by Nick J. Santore
Cinematography by Tom Krawczyk
Story & Edited by Colin Santangelo

OFFICIAL SELECTION:
SXSW Film Festival
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival - Best Mini-Doc Nomination
Seattle International Film Festival
Santa Barbara Film Festival
SFFILM Festival
Palm Springs International ShortFest
Chicago Critics Film Festival - Audience Award
The Martha's Vineyard Film Festival
Atlanta Docufest - Best Director
Salute Your Shorts - Audience Award
Sidewalk Film Festival
Indie Street Film Festival
Calgary International Film Festival - Honorable Mention
Tallgrass Film Festival
Charlotte Film Festival
Drunken Film Fest
Nashville Film Festival
Hamptons International Film Festival
DocsMX
The Polish Film Festival Los Angeles
Fresh Coast Film Festival
Still Voices Film Festival

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During the summer of 2020, I returned home to Chicago during a break from my studies at the Łódź Film School in Poland. When I got there, my mother quietly walked me into a room where she gently pulled a strange, hairless creature out of a shoe box.

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Content warning: n/a

Keywords: love, family, race, relationships, environment

Description: This short film focuses on the individuals and relationships within a black community, narrated by a poem which talks about how their relationships have improved their lives in a place which they feel is not made for them. A kind of self care, lifting you up and sharing experiences, the film explores how you can find a new home in people, and how relationships are what makes life worth living.

Analysis: The film uses a collection of different scenes of different people in a black community who have a variety of relationships, such as a husband and wife with their children, a group of friends, and a young couple. It focuses on the warmth and joy in these relationships through candid feeling shots in multiple locations such as young girls skating in the park and a couple hugging in their house. The film feels intimate and has a calm joy to it, which is emphasised by uplifting yet slow music and the thoughtful voiceover. There are frequent shots of people which are taken from a long angle, which evoke a feeling of importance and strength and emphasise the theme of feeling that the relationships they have build them up. Use of slow motion also adds to the reflective and calming feeling. The colour palette of the film is all natural colours, and there is frequent use of green, brown, white and blue. This creates an atmosphere that feels calm and focuses on the people in it because there are few distractions. The natural colours also suggest that perhaps the relationships featured in the film feel pure or ‘natural’.

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‘As Above’ directed by Kemi Anna, is a love letter to Blackness, celebrating Black love, Black beauty and Black glory. The concept for the film came…

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Salt |  Horror Short Film about a Mother and Daughter Fighting a Demon

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"Hold Me Tight" - Short film by Leoluna Robert-Tourneur

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"Hold Me Tight" - Short film by Leoluna Robert-Tourneur

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Content warnings:  blood, violence, sex

Keywords: nature, wilderness, erotism, fantasy, animation

Description: In the wilderness of a forest, as two creatures meet, a courtship display begins where attraction and seduction meet danger. A fantasy animation with a vibrant aesthetic, showing the ways of how nature works.

Analysis: The use of vibrant colors in this animation really takes you on a journey and the seamless transitions keep your interest until the end. The visualization of the experience of sex and the feelings that emerge from it, is really interestingly done. The hunt with the bunny first confused me, but afterwards made more sense as the animation showed the way nature works. From the hunt to the danger, to attraction leading to seduction and seduction coming to a climax. The pace and the transitions captured this journey quite well, making this short film really interesting to use as visual reference for this project.

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Bewitching tale of a bridal parade | "Hold Me Tight" - Short film by Leoluna Robert-Tourneur

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Content Warnings n\a

Keywords: hands, advertisement, music,

Description: It is a hand wash advertisement which only focus on shooting the details and movements of hands. The slogan is “you can handle anything”

Analysis: it is not like most of the ads i have seen. I didn’t even notice that it’s an ad of a hand gel until the end but it’s enough eye-catching and memorable. It contains people from a broad range of jobs, hobbies, ages, races, showing how everyone’s taking part in the society, creating, caring and loving with there hands. I like how thoughtful it is.

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(Otto Gonzalez) Stan Brakhage, "Dog Star Man, Part II"

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(Otto Gonzalez) Stan Brakhage, "Dog Star Man, Part II"

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1.     Content Warnings

-Nothing

2.     Keywords

-Experimental, existentialism, ageing, non-narrative

3.     Description

-       The film depicts a man struggling up a mountain and quickly switches between images of the man, distorted film reels and an infant crying. The films director Stan Brakhage is an American avant-garde filmmaker who is known for his experimental use of film through scratching, collaging and multiple exposures. He is also known for exploring themes of birth, mortality and the universe. Brakhages work has also been heralded for its impact in the avant-garde and experimental film world for challenging the idea that film has to center around narrative and can’t be viewed as a piece of abstract art.

4.     Analysis

-       It terms of the meaning of the film it is open to many different interpretations and is intentionally left ambiguous to allow the viewer to draw their own conclusions. Similar to abstract art the films purpose can be seen as a means of invoking emotion in the viewer and from that reveal aspects of the human experience. Brakhage’s films often have themes of mortality, birth and innocence which can all be found in this film. Having said that I feel that one potential interpretation of the film is that it depicts the human struggle and the vulnerable nature of our experience in the universe. I feel the film is an effective in broadening the scope of filmmaking as well as creating a film that can be relatable to people of all walks of life by appealing to a broad interpretation of the human experience. In terms of how this film relates to care there aren’t many parallels though I feel this film can offer many techniques and methods for evoking emotion which could help reinforce a films narrative.

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Burden of Proof - Ivar Aase (Matilda Wise)

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Burden of Proof - Ivar Aase (Matilda Wise)

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Content Warning:
Mentions of r*pe and ass*ult

Keywords:
Tension, shame, pride

Description:
In this one take, birds eye view short film, a women meets with her late boyfriend who she has just broken up with. At first the atmosphere is awkward and uncomfortable, and as the women gives the male his clothes back that she had at her new place, the male tries to make jokes, lighten the mood, and bring up fond times in the past between the two. The female is cold, straight to the point, and avoidant of any positive talk between the two, as she mentions the way he treated her when they were together, and attempts to get him to apologise and admit what he has done to her. The male is avoidant, acts confused and tries to downplay the situation and act as if she is overreacting, and after a while of trying not to, he eventually apologises. However, the male continues to not admit and say out loud what he did, and as he gets frustrated, he becomes suspicious of her behaviour and starts to search her, and as a result finds a mic. He tries to take the mic off her by becoming aggressive, however someone walks past and intervenes. The two walk away from each other, and the female takes the camera.

Analysis:
The film is pretty straight forward in terms of its meaning, and this portrays the woman trying to get the male charged for his actions by filming and recording him saying aloud what he did, however it shows the lack of care that the male has towards the female, therefore caring more about his pride and image by staying in his unaware and avoidant mindset, which gives us a good idea of his character and what he was like in the relationship, as he has no remorse towards her feelings and viewpoint and thinks of only himself.

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Burden of Proof | Chilling One-Take about an Abusive Ex

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TheThe Family Whose Faces Change Shape | BORN DIFFERENT

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TheThe Family Whose Faces Change Shape | BORN DIFFERENT

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The Family Whose Faces Change Shape | BORN DIFFERENT

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《熟悉の陌生人》短视频｜不要小看你一句鼓励的话，这足以改变一个人的一生。

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Lost & found - Andrew Goldsmith & Bradley Slabe

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Lost & found - Andrew Goldsmith & Bradley Slabe

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Content Warnings: n/a

Keywords: stop frame animation, loss, emotional,

Description: An emotional story of a knitted dinosaur toy that tries to save a knitted fox toy from drowning in a garden water fountain. The dinosaur sees the fox struggling but snags himself on a stuck out nail on the way to save her, causing him to lose more of his thread with every step he takes.

Analysis: The film very quickly draws you in and is efficient at conveying the storyline without any dialogue. I was especially impressed by how sad and emotional the second half of the film was, given that the characters were only introduced a few minutes earlier.

The film uses stop frame animation that looks completely flawless and captures the knitted materials the characters are made out of very well:)

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Lost & Found | Shortlisted for Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

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Content Warnings: n/a

Keywords: claymation, animation,

Description: A short film set on a beach during a heatwave that is too much for people on the beach. The film shows how the heat is affecting each group of people on the beach. Two children jump into the sea in an effort to cool down with such force they create a wave that soaks everyone on the beach. Everyone happily swims together in the sea and is grateful for being cooled down. The final scene shows everyone being washed up onto shore and standing together to watch the sun set. The two children then laugh together and share a joke.

Analysis: The film is strange and unusual in its animation style and overall look. At the beginning some of the visuals are very striking and at times almost scary, like the lady whose face appears to be melting from the sun, however, as the film progresses I felt it becomes a lot more uplifting and wholesome. I enjoyed how the calming ending contrasts with the chaotic beginning of the film and how the ending encapsulates the feeling of summertime.

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Award-Winning Stop-Motion Animation Short Film | HEATWAVE

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Content Warnings: Death

Keywords: Loss, Care, Family, Comedy

Description: A short film about dealing with the loss of loved ones. The film shows a woman’s husband, a father of two passing away. The film then shows their reactions briefly until it forwards to the next day where the three family members say goodby as the funeral director takes the father away.

Analysis: The film is very intense, every scene feels full of emotion and sadness. This is amplified by the directors choice to not include any background noise or music throughout nearly all of the film. I like how the unexpected ending keeps the film from feeling too morbid and sad while not taking away from the more serious parts of the film.

The short is also shot in a more square (4;3) aspect ratio that is uncommon for professional looking films. I think it’s used well here and gives the film a more intimate and personal feel.

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Raspberry | Sundance Short Film about Dealing with Loss

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The Family Whose Faces Change Shape | BORN DIFFERENT

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In A Heartbeat- Beth David, Esteban Bravo (2018)

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In A Heartbeat- Beth David, Esteban Bravo (2018)

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Content Warning: Painfully adorable

Keywords: Love, LGBTQIA+, Animated

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Keywords: Original Family，Documentary

Description：Kai Xiang lost his parents in his childhood, his parents in the disaster relief action carelessly sacrificed, naive and lovely Kai Xiang thought that his parents just did not go home, so often take his brother's mobile phone to call his mother's phone number. Unexpectedly, one day the phone number actually dialed, the stranger imitated the tone of "mother" to talk to his brother, and encouraged his brother to help him grow up, in a kind of "white lie" way to tell his parents to become Superman. When he grew up, his brother was very grateful to the stranger for protecting his young heart, encouraging him and helping him grow up healthily.

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《熟悉の陌生人》短视频｜不要小看你一句鼓励的话，这足以改变一个人的一生。

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Content Warning: N/A

Keywords: Urban Expansion, Pollution, Residential Danger, Environmental Harm, Animation

Description: This short animation details the negative impacts of the unchecked and reckless expansion of the Trenton Airport. It highlights the four major dangers of increased airport activity on the residents of the surrounding community, environment and ecology of the Trenton Airport and aims to hold those responsible for the expansion accountable for the potential harm they are posing on the region. Firstly, it raises the concern of air pollution and how it affects the physical health of the community. Secondly, it acknowledges water pollution and its impact on decreased food safety and danger to wildlife. Thirdly, it highlights noise pollution and its affect on learning, cognition and mental health. And finally, it recognizes the decrease in home value for the surrounding community.
The video thus acts as a form of activism against irresponsible construction and urbanization, and encourages a more thoughtful and considered approach that honors and protects the community that inhabits the region around the airport and protects their rights to clean air, water, and peaceful quality of life.

Analysis: This short animation effectively highlights the dangers and high-risk involved with the reckless expansion of the Trenton Airport on its surrounding community and environment.
It begins with inviting the audience into the community by illustrating and connecting them to the community through the use of 'you'. It invites you to imagine yourself as part of this community that it later reveals is affected by the problems posed by the expansion. This is very effective as it allows the audience to develop a personal connection and investment with the community the video will be talking about, and invites empathy into the issue. It then goes on to  concisely and precisely in the outline each concern, in a very straightforward and matter-of-fact way, that allows for the audience to pay attention to each problem without getting bored or lost. Each concern is accompanied by a simple illustrated example of the various physical, ecological and financial security risks that the expansion would be creating.
The illustrations are simple yet dynamic, with simple motion and linework that is not distracting from the problem it is highlighting. There is also constant movement in the background with gradients, and texture that brings the animation to life, that references the pollution the video is talking about and keeps the viewer vested in the animation. This is accompanied by sound effects like coughing, cutting, breaking etc that effectively communicate the negative impacts of the expansion on the residents.

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Content warning: death, loss

Key words: fear, anxiety, paternal love, emotional, performance art

Description: Lo fi recording of a performance conducted by my friend, Martim Novais: "I have always had a fear of losing my father. Despite not having much memories as a child, I remember the sensation of dread I experienced when my dad was away. This fixation was based in the fact that he lost his father when he was only 9 years old. That thought haunted me intensively until that age"
This takes place in a theatrical set built with cardboard with minimal furniture (a bed and chairs). It is performed by a single person and it is accompanied by lullaby melody played live on the bass. The video starts with the character peacefully sleeping on a bed. He wakes up and realises that something is missing. You can see this disturbed and lost character frantically looking for something that is absent on the stage. The character slowly becomes more desperate and frustrated. He gives up and ends up laying down on the bed again. As he lays down, he feels something on the mattress. He euphorically tears apart the mattress and finds a body (made of rags and fabric). He emotionally holds this body and puts him to bed. The lights turn off and the performance ends.

Analysis: This performance depicts an intimate relationship of care and affection. It demonstrates how the character deeply loves and cherishes his father. This is accompanied by a somewhat irrational and crippling fear of losing such a precious person. The author deals with this subject beautifully with a subtle eeriness, profound sentiment and a sense of delicacy and care for his father. I admire the way he treated this matter, embodying the character with the expressiveness of his own body and the smart use of props to add cinematic value. The use of a low quality vintage camera perfectly grasps the performance's angelical, hazy and dreamy aura. It resembles the footage of a buried memory or a subconscious nightmare. The lighting adds a lot to the drama and theatricality of the situation, enhancing the character's body language and facial expressions.
Overall, this is a poetic short video that I look up to as an example for the scene design, use of camera quality and creative approach.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaWA2GbcnJU&ab_channel=thailifechannel

Content Warning: n/a

Keywords: action, compassion, emotions, kindness

Description: In the commercial titled "Thai life insurance: Unsung hero", conveys a valuable message to the audience instead of selling their services directly to us. It depicts a story of a man who helps people, animals, plants and the world simply because it makes him feel better when he gives to others. He gets nothing in return, he won’t be richer, he won’t appear on TV, still anonymous and not a bit more famous. What he does receive are emotions, he witnesses happiness. Reaches a deeper understanding. Feels the love. Receives what money can't buy. A world made more beautiful. This commercial will takes on a journey of recognizing it’s not about being well known that matters, it’s about being someone worth knowing.

Analysis: This commercial wants us to know that our life matters to them and they will take care of us whenever we need them. It is an advertisement for compassion, understanding, and a short film towards the promotion of good deeds since there are fewer and fewer of them in the world. Despite the concept and the scenario being fairly simple, the emotional response it triggers in the audience is extraordinary. The main hero receives nothing but judgment and disapproval from his fellow citizens. It seems that everyone around him is taking his help for granted, but he does not notice. Closer to the apex of this simple story, the reason for his obsession with doing good is revealed that he sees happiness through his own eyes and experiences true joy when helping others. It is a feeling the modern society urges its members – every one – to forget. Making people obsessed with benefits for their own sake, acquirement of personal material wealth, careerism, and various other strategies are contributing immensely to the extinction of people like him. The “unsung hero” finds relief, perhaps even reaches enlightenment, in making the world a better, safer, and more kind place.

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"Platzspits-Baby" | "Needle-park Baby" 2020 

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"Platzspits-Baby" | "Needle-park Baby" 2020 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqMnXDaRTLY
Content Warning: Drug use, Abuse, Needles

Keywords:
Drug use
Childhood
Biopic / Autobiographical
Family
Government

Description:
A film adaptation of the autobiography "Platzspitz Baby" by Michelle Halbneer, which tells about her relationship with her Mother, growing up in the drug use scene in Zürich during the 1980s, the reorganisation of communities by the Swiss government, and her attempt to escape into the countryside.

Analysis:
To care for is a double-edged sword.
This film dives into an often overlooked part of the history of the city of Zürich, and provides a great insight into understanding the development of certain communities and subcultures that appeared hereafter. The film deals with the concept of care within communities on two different levels, the very intimate ( within families, describing the struggles of custody, dependency, and isolation ) and the very federal (experience of the government's response, and the double-edged sword of attempt at caring for the individual by acting on a community scale, the relocation of people). This film explores responsibility, accountability, and sacrifice in relation to care.

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Content warning: n/a

Key words: Gender, Family, Childcare, Queer, heartfelt, hope, identity

Description: A documentary about a family who has chosen to raise a child with a gender open approach and the story about the process of this approach.

Analysis: This short film portrays two parents, Louisa Rechenbach and Hobbit who live in a barge with their child, Anoush over 4 years and the process of raising them with a gender open approach with the ideas/thoughts of family and peers surrounding the decision. A range of parenting methods is used such as specifically buying both masculine and feminine toys for Anoush as well as giving them a gender neutral name and pronouns.

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Louisa Rechenbach's sensitive documentary They follows a family raising their child with a "gender open" approach

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Born in Hanover, Germany, Louisa moved to London six years ago to study film at the University of Arts London. Beforehand, Louisa had worked as a production assistant in commercials and as an assistant director on two German feature films. It was during her time at university that the filmmaker found herself becoming more aware of "social structures" and gravitating towards documentary.

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https://www.asff.co.uk/animation

Content warning – Features talks of Greif, Suicide and Loss

Loss, Greif, Emotion, Love, Care.

A conceptual short film based around grief. The film uses a fusion of painting and animation to make a visually impactful reel. Using multiple different scenes, the film maker creates movement using different iterations of each scene. The story line features lots of different emotions one feels when experiencing grief with someone that they deeply care for. A perspective that is sometimes forgotten as all the support usually goes to the one dying and not the few left behind. A collaboration of everything raw and real and the desperate measures in periods of grief.

The use of paint rather un-traditional. This may raise the question of why to any audience. I believe the use of paint to be a metaphor for the way in which grief is something that can age and fade over time when in the light as opposed to staying the same when locked away in a dark space. I think this is a powerful embedded message within the short film that creates a consistent and concise message. The message being portrayed Is an important one as in situations of death people see it as a patch of sadness and don’t necessarily offer the support needed to those individuals that are left after caring for someone sick for months/ years. This film bringing that into the light using first person within the film showing how dark and desperate grief can make you. A short film about the forgot ones within grief. I also love the interesting take it has on care. Because people see care being a massive pilar of strength and support, however this has flipped the penny and showing the way in which caring for people can make you vulnerable and if anything more susceptible to being hurt.

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Animation - Aesthetica Short Film Festival

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Watch imaginative animated shorts from the Aesthetica Film Festival

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Content warning: N/A

Keywords: City, single take, visual,  happiness, embrace

Description:

C’était un rendez-vous is an 8 minute 1976 short film by Claude Lelouch. The short film consists of a car speeding through the streets of Paris in the early hours of the morning, about 5:30am, driving past various empty landmarks and tourist attractions. The car is never seen as the camera is attached to the front of the car and the film ends with the driver, whose face we never see, getting out and embracing a woman. Claude Lelouch is driving the car himself and only two people on the streets of Paris were expecting him, Élie Chouraqui, his first assistant, was waiting with a walkie talkie in the Rue de Rivoli, behind the archway exiting from the gardens of the Louvre palace, meaning to assist the driver at the only blind junction (archway) - although the walkie talkie failed, luckily the traffic flight was green and no pedestrians were in the way. The other person who knew about his arrival was Lelouch's girlfriend Gunilla Friden. He'd told her he'd arrive within ten minutes at the Sacré-Cœur and asked her to appear upon his arrival and is who he can be seen embracing at the end.

Analysis:

This short film is shot in one continuous take which I really like - it creates a very homemade style video. The only audio is the sound of the car which highlights the speed in which the car is going. Shot in the early hours of the morning, the streets of Paris are almost empty, with landmarks and tourist attractions eerily empty. I think the emptiness of the city and the dusk lighting make for somewhat comforting short film as it’s a viewpoint of a city we don’t often get to see. The film can be somewhat linked to care as at the end the driver embraces a women, making it seem like the driver is speeding to see her. The woman looks happy to see the driver and vice versa. I think this short film is really cool with a sweet ending.

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Hold Me Tight - Leoluna Robert                       (Matilda Wise)

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Hold Me Tight - Leoluna Robert                       (Matilda Wise)

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Content Warning:
Animated blood

Keywords:
Arousal, lust, desire

Description:
One of the characters is hunting a rabbit, and succeeds. However, one of the other characters enters the scene and also craves the rabbit. They fight and chase each other for it, and one is about to win, however they decide to share the rabbit instead. After sharing, they act suspiciously of each other, but clearly care to invest in each other's attention and show interest and attraction. After chasing each other some more and playing hard to get, they both embrace and have intercourse in an intimate and fierce manor. After the intercourse is complete, they hiss at one another and go their separate ways.

Analysis:
For me, I took this as sign of both characters having a fear of vulnerability, but still having the craving to show it. After getting the rabbit, the character had full control to eat it themselves and were on top of the other character, showing dominance and control, and only after knowing they had the upper hand did they then decide to back down, showing that they had to be sure of their strength in the situation. The two had powerful and emotional intercourse and visually, spiritually connected in a beautiful way, however after awakening hours later, they showed regret and a change of heart by hissing, showing that after the deed was done and they had time after to rest, they decided to back out due to the vulnerable state they both woke up in.

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Bewitching tale of a bridal parade | "Hold Me Tight" - Short film by Leoluna Robert-Tourneur

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Content warning: Death

Keywords: family, grief, pet, loving, hope

Description:

“Archie is devastated to learn of the death of his beloved aunt. He makes the long journey to the home she's left him in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland and a new day brings renewed hope for Archie and his dog.” This short films explores feelings of loss whilst also coming to terms with a new beginning.

Analysis:

This short film explores grief in a way that is lighthearted and enjoyable to watch. The film portrays grief as a way to explore and reminisce on memories of loved ones whilst accepting a new beginning - perhaps a new beginning that honours the home and belongings of the deceased love one. The characters in the film don’t have any dialogue which makes the film even more moving as most of their emotions are shows through facial expressions and body language. The characters are felted which takes away from the heaviness that is usually associated with grief, the felted characters are also really cute which makes for a really sweet short film. Care can be felt throughout this short film in different ways. You can tell Archie cares for his deceased aunt and that she cared for him through Archies family photos. You can also feel the care between Archie and his dog as his dog acts as a support for Archie, accompanying him on his adventure. I think this film communicates the theme of care really effectively as it visually portrays hope and a fresh start with the help of a close family member/ friend (Archies dog).

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Stop-Motion Animated Short Film "Archie" | Archie and his pet dog go on a long journey.

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https://www.channel4.com/programmes/random-acts/on-demand/73384-001

Content warning: Death

Keywords: Parent, grief, overcoming challenges, mental health,

Description:

David Alexander explores the 24 hours surrounding his fathers passing.  Filmed in one take, Phoenix explores his feelings and emotions in the wake of his fathers death

Analysis:

This short film explores and explains the feeling associated with grief and the passing of a close family member. it is filmed entirely in black and white which likely represent the film makers feelings in the wake of his fathers death. The entirety of the film is shot underwater, with the narrator only making his way to the surface after explaining his feeling of being reborn again. The title ‘Phoenix’ is a link to the mythical creature, who once has lived a long life burns itself to ashes and is reborn from said ashes. I think the film explores the idea of rebirth, not only for the deceased but also for those around them. The narrator explains how after his fathers death he felt lost and like a newborn baby, reborn again and seeing life for the first time. I feel as though this film can be linked to care as the death of a family member is a time when care is needed most, especially for young people who may be experiencing death and grief for the first time. I think this film communicates the theme of grief (and in some way care) effectively as it visually portrays the heaviness and loneliness that accompanies death.

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The world's best creative films, from established names and new artistic talent, and from avant-garde visual art to music video, spoken word and eye-popping animation

The short film strand dedicated to the arts returns with exciting works from cutting-edge Black filmmakers. David Alexander explores the 24 hours after the passing of his father.

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The world's best creative films, from established names and new artistic talent, and from avant-garde visual art to music video, spoken word and eye-popping animation The short film strand dedicated to the arts returns with exciting works from cutting-edge Black filmmakers. David Alexander explores the 24 hours after the passing of his father.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLGNj-xrgvY&ab_channel=CGMeetup

Content Warning: n/a

Keywords: volunteering, kindness

Description: This short film was created to promote volunteering during World Kindness Day. Mr Indifferent features a very serious and selfish man who takes no interest in others and only worries about his own concerns. In the first scenes, the man allows the elevator doors to shut right as a woman’s rushing to get in. He doesn’t even flinch when he sees a little girl’s balloon slip out of her hands. The man offers no assistance or concern when another man’s grocery cart rolls away from him and ignores a woman who’s gathering signatures for a good cause. A man who doesn't care for anyone unexpectedly has a change of heart when he saves an old woman's life.

Analysis: A believable change of the main character from an Indifferent guy to a caring guy. He starts to do all the things that he haven’t for his past life, by doing all these things, he realizes that his life is much happier. He decides to show other people how satisfying helping others can be by doing what the old woman did to him. Loving others, showing kindness and compassion is what we need in our lives the most. Even if we don't know one another, we still need to look after each other and have each other's back. In a world where everyone is indifferent towards their kind (or even other kinds) it's going to be hard to live. As the nature of water is to stream, the nature of human being is to love and show affection. Small bits of help may be much bigger to the person you are helping. Somewhere, sometime, someone is thinking of you for the small favour you did or simply witnessed you being kind to a being. Cause our kindness and our love is the legacy we leave behind after our bodies are long gone six feet under and our souls are millions and millions of light years away.

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CGI Animated Short Film: "Mr Indifferent" by Aryasb Feiz | CGMeetup

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Rabbit Ankles - Evan David Howard            (Matilda Wise)

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Rabbit Ankles - Evan David Howard            (Matilda Wise)

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(SHORT FILM IS ON FIRST INSTAGRAM POST)
Content Warning:
Mild fake blood

Keywords:
Guilt, darkness, melancholy

Description:
The main owns a rabbit named 'Guilt', that he can't stop from biting his ankles. He tries to stop the biting / pain from the biting in many ways but can't manage to do so. He writes to his mum, who then buys him another rabbit. In the end, the main realises it was not the specific rabbit that was the problem, it was that he cannot accept things that are given to him.

Analysis:
The film uses the rabbit as a metaphor for the feeling of guilt that the main character feels for not caring enough for the rabbit, resulting in the rabbit hurting him. Instead of improving his level of care for the rabbit, he searches for answers in different circumstances to avoid the rabbit (his guilt) and try to push it aside, however in the end, he realises that guilt can only be tackled by facing it, which is why the film ends on a one liner, of him admitting the fact that, he cannot accept things that are given to him.

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evan (@evandavidhoward) • Instagram photos and videos

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11K Followers, 487 Following, 57 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from evan (@evandavidhoward)

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Content warning: n/a

key words: memory, comfort, family

Description: The film takes you through the thoughts and feelings of a daughter towards her Mothers belongings and home environment. It's directed at the Mother, like she's speaking to her, listing things from their home. It feels quite personal but likely connects to other viewers too, I feel like everyone had certain objects in their family home which trigger memories similarly.

Analysis: Everyday or mundane objects become signifiers of memories and feelings, which is something that's communicated really well I think. The airbrush effect really gives the shapes an emotive quality and helps reflect what memories 'look like' in a way: a vague shape and colour but no detail. She also layers video footage with her drawings (like tracing) in a way that's quite subtle, allowing the drawings to pop out and be accurate to the shapes behind. The idea of a personal film being relatable wasn't one that I had really considered but is definitely possible, which could be useful later in the project.

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The Things Around Us was born from a trip to the Wellcome Collection in London, where Magda found herself in the Medicine Man permanent exhibition. "Somehow it reminded me of my parents' home and looking at my mothers' belongings," she explains. "My mother isn't a 'traditional' collector as Henry Wellcome was, but I also wonder sometimes why she chooses to keep certain things at home." Shedding her preconceived judgments on the nature of collecting, Magda reorientated her view of her mother's belongings as a collection of memories. "This perspective shift enabled me to start a new, non-judgemental conversation with my mother," she explains. "We talked about her experience and the stories behind certain objects." Following this channel, Magda began to understand that most objects contain strong emotional connections to memories, which her mother was attempting to preserve. Consequently, the film is Magda's way of cherishing her mother's own collections.

It took experimenting with old family videos for Magda to find out how the film would work stylistically. "After a lot of trial and error, I eventually found the style for this film," she says. "The live footage is slightly visible under the blurred shapes, just like distant memories, and it gives an insight into a personal story." What started as an intention to channel her mother's perspective soon became a conduit for Magda's own existence growing up around such a collection. "It became about the conflict I had with her collection and the final acceptance," the animator tells us. "After a lot of reflection, remembering and rethinking, I recorded my thoughts and used them for the voice-over of the film." With the help of Max Gausepohl, an eerie and unnerving sound design was created, and with it came the film's uncanny atmosphere.

"This project was very personal and almost a form of therapy," Magda concludes. "So as much as I like to create personal work, I'm also looking forward to diving into other topics and stories and creating new animated projects as a freelance animator."

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Animator Magda Kreps reveals a beautiful new film exploring memory through animation

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The Things Around Us was born from a trip to the Wellcome Collection in London, where Magda found herself in the Medicine Man permanent exhibition. "Somehow it reminded me of my parents' home and looking at my mothers' belongings," she explains.

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https://www.artforum.com/video/carolyn-lazard-crip-time-2018-83024

Content Warning:
N/A

Keywords:
Health, Medicine, Chronic Illness, Time

Description:
Crip Time, is a one-shot video depicting the time consuming process of organising and sorting different medications for daily / weekly consumption. The piece is set on a clothed table and filmed from a Birdseye view.

Analysis:
Carolyn Lazard’s short film tackles the theme of crip time in such a way that the audience feels personally invested in just one of the time consuming rituals in the life of a person with a chronical illness. Carolyn Lazard uses time to illustrate this investment by creating ‘Crip Time’ out of a one-shot piece of footage. The viewer watches this shot of the subject organising pills into daytime labelled pots for a duration of ten minutes. This investment of the viewers time is just a glimpses into the disabled / chronically ill experience. Another indicator if time is labels on the pill pots. It makes the viewer even more aware of how much of the subjects day is consumed by taking medication.

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1.     Content Warning: N/A

2.     Keywords:

Capoeira, voguing, spirituality, identity, personal expression, liberation, self-defence, resistance, rebellion, trans rights, LGBTQIA, freedom

3.     Description

This short film takes us through futuristic, ancestral, multi-disciplinary artist: Puma Camille’s explorations in movement. She’s a Brazilian capoeirista who feeds voguing into a new dance style where she explores spirituality through merging acrobatics with martial art dance. For those who don’t know, Nowness explains that Capoeira’s roots are traced back to the Engolo tradition of Angola which is “a movement-driven style of ritualistic combat – capoeira developed as a route to personal expression under the weight of colonial oppression and a means of cultural preservation for those distances from their natural environment. From its origins in 16th century Brazil, the once-outlawed art form grew into a symbol of liberation, combining the cultural influence of enslaved Africans, Indigenous Brazilians, and Portuguese settlers in a poetic means of disarmament and self-defence”. This short film shows PUMA’s incredible ability to perform these two performance styles as one whole.

4.     Analysis

It takes us through Puma’s story where she talks on top of beautiful footage of herself dancing, the colours and music bring the whole video to life but more importantly her dancing makes us feel pride and warmth. I struggle to find ways in which the video is less successful, it’s very powerful and moving. I think the video links with some of the writings from earlier on in the week as it touches subjects such as getting familiar with who we are internally can give us a powerful spirit that can change the world. Expressing yourself is so important for a better world, and Puma does it in such a creative and beautiful way. She never felt comfortable growing up and struggled with expectations of being a man and having to be masculine around her friends. Through dance and community, she found a safe space to express herself and encourage others to fight for their freedom and acceptance in society too.

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Content warning: n/a

Keywords: animation, music, environment, transport, individuals

Description: This video is a stylised animation of a woman singing the song ‘Just the Two of Us’ on a London bus, before she asks for directions and interacts with the filmmaker’s ‘character’ who compliments her on her singing. Artistic shots of other passengers on the bus reacting to the singing are also shown. The short film uses real life audio from this interaction, and is brought to life through a colourful and fun pink animation.

Analysis: This short film creates an atmosphere that feels strangely familiar and comforting through the use of real life diagetic audio combined with warm colourful visuals and illustrative animations. This creates a feeling of comfort in the audience as the audio of the bus is something most London locals will hear on a daily basis, but it is romanticised alongside the animation which makes this real sound feel more dreamy. I think this is a clever way to express how this woman’s singing made the filmmaker feel, as the animation can communicate the warm dream-like feeling visually. This film inspires how to communicate a feeling in a more experimental way, through using visual effects or colour. I think the fact that the characters are illustrated in an almost ugly but artistic way using shapes and a doodle style makes them feel more human because the viewer has to imagine the detail to create the real person in their head. I think that this video is very effective in capturing a moment that has meant something to the filmmaker and giving the person who she only saw fleetingly a spotlight to show what it meant to her.

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I recorded a women singing 'Just the Two of Us' on the bus a couple months ago. She sang it non-stop for 30 mins and I entered a dreamy trance. 

I love the recording, it makes me feel extremely relaxed and get a tingly head. I've appreciated this soundbite in a different way during lockdown, it's gained a poniency I didn't anticipate. It's made me miss entertaining and uplifting encounters with strangers. And even slightly miss public transport (especially people watching on the bus)!?

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Content Warnings n/a, but trauma trigger if you are a family member of this sacrifice and are a sacrifice who was forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military from 1932 to 1945

Keywords: comedy, true story, tragedy history, and American court

Description: I can speak: To sum up, Ok-Bun, an elderly woman famous for filing complaints at the district office, discovers that Min Jae, a civil service officer, is good at English and asks him to teach her. While studying together, Min Jae learns about Ok-Bun's heart-breaking past. Ok-Bun wishes to learn English to fulfil her friend Jeong-Shim's dream of testifying at the comfort women's public hearing in Washington D.C. Both Ok-Bun and Jeong-Shim were victims of the Japanese Military during World War II. Although Ok-Bun has prepared what to say for the public hearing, she finds it difficult to speak due to the pressure she feels in unfamiliar surroundings. When people start to question her behaviour, Ok-Bun sees Min Jae in the audience and is filled with courage to testify against the atrocities committed by the Japanese Military.

Analysis: This movie tells the story of comfort women who were treated as sexual slaves by the Japanese military, and its message is the importance of caring for these women. The main character, Ok-Bun, travels to the U.S to testify at a comfort women’s public hearing in Washington D.C. She says "I am not hiding anymore," which shows that she had previously hidden the fact that she was a comfort woman, possibly due to negative attitudes towards them in Korean society. Unfortunately, even today, some people in Korea believe that women who were raped must have flirted or received payment, which can lead to victims of sexual abuse being unfairly stigmatized. What's even worse is that the Japanese government has not yet apologized to these women for their suffering. Many of the victims have already passed away, and the Japanese government may be waiting for all of them to die so that the proof of their wrongdoing will disappear. For these reasons, these women need to be cared for and their voices need to be heard. In terms of directing, it is interesting to note that this movie contains both tragic and comedic elements.

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Content Warnings n/a non-applicable

Keywords: life, emotions, family love, and Disney

Description: Inside Out: To summarize, the movie "Inside Out" portrays the struggle of a young girl's five core emotions as she copes with a major life change, caused by her family moving to San Francisco. Initially, Joy leads the emotions in guiding the girl through this difficult event, but the stress of the move causes Sadness to become more prominent. When Joy and Sadness are accidentally transported to the far corners of the girl's mind, the remaining emotions of Anger, Fear, and Disgust take over in her conscious mind. As a result, the girl argues with her parents and leaves the house, but ultimately realizes that embracing Sadness is necessary for resolving the conflict with her parents.

Analysis: This movie reminds me of the importance of emotional care and emotional expression in the other word. Emotion expression would possibly be a good tool to resolve conflicts between other people sometimes and also your conflicts inside. I think some people are hiding their feeling while living in a society, which impacts their bodies. For example, when someone is sad and wants to cry, if they don’t cry and shallow their feeling coming their way, it is not good for them because they end up boiling it up one day, thus staying unhealthy mentally and even increasing the risk of diabetes and heart disease. When it comes to the one of interesting methods of making a moving image in this film, the film director made five core emotions like disgust, anger, and so on animation characters which are intangible and do not exist in that way in reality. I think This unique approach captures the audience's attention and interest.

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Content Warnings:
Violence, Flashing imagery, Injury

Keywords:
Fashion
Comedy
Animation
Live action
Adult swim

Description:

A non linear, and at times, highly confusing but deeply satisfying short-film that explores the world of fashion as seen by the creator. With no specific story line to adhere too, The film utilizes an array of differnent styles and techniques to acheive the wild world of fashion, such as: 2D and 3D animation and Live action all blended together through satisfying cuts and transitions.

Analysis:
The film entertains the wild and unispired nature, as percieved by an outsider to the fashion industry. The "For sake of art"  & "Anything can be art" mentality that adorns the cat walks. The mentality of those who do not take the time to understand the industry, the projects and the community as a whole and just see the work as ill fittingand hideous fabrics swaying around an under fed model. Still the creator manages to create an enjoyable and satirical film that takes these views and hyperbolize them into the misconstrue world that these individuals are actually describing to show just how insane the industry could be.

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Content Warning: n/a

Keywords: motherhood, loneliness, love, growing up

Description: An animated film centers on a Chinese Canadian mom suffering from empty nest syndrome that gets another chance at motherhood when one of her steamed bun (bao) comes alive as a lively boy. Bao were then raised as a child, feeding and caring by his mother. Eventually, Bao grows and desires increasing amounts of independence that creates tension between the two of them that gradually separates them from each other.

Analysis: Bao truly is about a mother’s love, and a mother dealing with their child growing up and moving on in life.  As Bao grows up, he shows signs of rejecting his Asian heritage despite his mother's overprotectiveness. This is something that many second-generation kids might think about, especially if they go to a mainly white school, there is a pressure to conform and “be white” in order to conform better. Bao brings his fiancée home and declares his intention to leave. She eats Bao out of desperation as she tries to stop it from going, and cries over what she has done. Her biological son, who resembles the Bao, enters as the mother sobs in bed, demonstrating that the Bao's central idea was a metaphor for the mother's bond with her son. Many Asian immigrant parents rarely or never say "I love you" to their children. They say "I love you" by taking care of you and making sure you are fed, using food as a love language symbolism. Preparing all food for Bao is mom's way of saying "I love you", and that love is being rejected. The love between a mother and her child and where the line gets crossed between love that is nurturing to love that is destructive. It’s about that fear parents have of no longer being relevant in their child’s life. It’s about being possibly replaced. The most touching lesson of the film is that love means to let go.

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Bao- The emotional story. (Oscar winning animated short film)

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Content Warning: Blood, death, crime,

Key Words: Mental Health, Revenge, animation, illustration, animals, regrets, memories

Description: A cat’s husband was murdered by a dog. With the police’s sketch, she traced the suspect through a map. On her way to revenge, she got into a fight with the staff at the gas station while stealing gasoline and accidentally set the place on fire. With the happy memories of her husband, she regretted and confess to the police.

Analysis: The emotions of the main character was well conveyed without narration. With the details, it’s easy to feel the reason how her emotions changed from fear, anger to almost evil. The scene of her eyes overlapping the eyes of the suspect in the mirror made me shocked.