no, not clothing you wear on your legs that moves of its own accord, short animated films. i get such a kick out of them. when we watched the oscars (the first time i’ve ever watched them in their entirety) i was intrigued by the nominations for animated short and wanted to know where i might be able to watch the nominated films. i found out this week that they were being shown at a local indie movie theatre here in town, so i took mr. h-s to see them this evening. i loved the winner, “the danish poet”.
mr. happy stuff’s theory is that i liked it because it was basically an animated children’s book. that may be true, but would that surprise anyone? i love the storyline of this movie, i loved the animation style and i love the hyperbole (one of the main characters grows really long hair that wraps around the room, whenever anyone boards a ship to cross the ocean, the top corner of the ship swings open like the door of a delorian…). if you can find a way to watch it, i think you’ll like it. [alkelda, parts of the opening and closing sequence reminded me of bede’s artwork. the little bit of it i’ve seen.]
i liked some of the other nominated and qualifying shorts as well. there was an amusing (and slightly terrifying) one titled “the passenger” that includes a goldfish in a bag sitting alone in an otherwise empty bus (other than the one passenger whose point of view we’re watching the movie from).
and a slapstick (but very funny and well-animated) piece entitled “the gentleman’s duel”
