Unrestricted view festival shorts 4

Unrestricted view festival Shorts 4

I love a compilation; the sound filmspackk a massive punch, and the bad ones flicker off in between frames.

And that is to their advantage. I was at a short film showcase at Sundance, and another industry guy I had acquainted with (Joe) asked me what film was the worst. I said one. He then mentioned a far more terrible film. It was so bad. I had erased watching it from my brain.

This selection was a high bar. I’ll mention Everyone Forgot as I did not, and I had seen it at fright fest. My full review is earlier in the fright fest selection, so check it out there. And whenever you can.

The three I selected to highly recommend from this turn are

Swing to the Moon;

A highly stylised animated short. With a consistent thread of keeping your dreams big and sticking to them, climbing walls, no matter how big they are. The design is impeccable and pure Pixar in conveying character and optimism while maintaining reality. I’m sure many tech heads will go wild for the water, hair fire and reflection effects. The heartfelt storytelling skills took me. One with the kids

Whos counting

With an intense, harsh, bleak subject like MIscarraige, it can be hard to convey without deadening the audience’s nerves or losing the sense of humanity to the tragedy. With superb editing, the film goes for the show, not tell, as we repeatedly watch a couple struggle with their dreams of a baby and the difficulties of losing that dream. With the choice of snapshots, we have an entire film that would be no different from a cinematic feature. Yet the acting from every bit part for every syllable helps push connection as nothing but human drama. Worth seeing, although it spears no punches in the emotional and mental health fore.

ROALD: 

Wow! It starts to hyper. So colourful. Like a cheap animation of Toady and Mole. But it soon turns to the fly’s perspective. The definition of toxic masculinity and damaging relationships can occur. It’s a black comedy of modern times, and the happy times or sinister leer of the frog could be simultaneous. It reminded me of watching a nostalgia show where you often have a straight white guy talk about how the ’90s were an absolute party, and the rest of us would be in the background…being a bit more…subdued. Oh yeah, #notall…I read a thin,g, and you have to put that for legal reasons. Not for kids, but it will fry your mind. Take it!