(courtesy IMDb (c) Fish Films) SNAPSHOTJohn, unable to understand the illness that drives his grandfather between past and present states, stumbles into an old album full of photographs. The images guide his imagination, transforming his grandfather’s memories into drawings that shape their relationship into a history of memory-building and remembrance. Continue Reading
Short film
The short and the short of it: Gnome and the trouble with bothersome noise
(courtesy Blender Artists (c) Sacha Goedegebure) SNAPSHOTOur PG rated short film is an unexpected tale of a Gnome returning home from a day of collecting nuts and finding a caterpillar struggling to reach for leaves outside his house. The good-natured gnome helps the caterpillar and gives it some leaves to Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The soul-reviving tenderness of Soft Rain
(courtesy Omens Studios) SNAPSHOT[Soft Rain is] an award-winning short film by Sacha Goedegebure and Omens Studios about a man suffering from depression who is caught in a sudden downpour of pink, fluffy balls. At a crowded bus stop, a cheerful looking woman offers him a spot under her umbrella, and Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: A man, a robot and the end of the world in Webcam
(courtesy YouTube (c) DUST) SNAPSHOTWebcam follows James Mann, a distraught man who thinks himself alone amidst the aftermath of our world’s downfall in the not-so-distant future. He lives a solitary life within a sealed bunker, taking refuge from the ravages of a world run amok. James’ only companion is a Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The comedically valiant explosively avian serious fun of BOOM
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTStudents at École des Nouvelles Images created BOOM, an award-winning darkly comedic animation about a pair of birds who try to save their eggs during the eruption of a volcano in the center of their island home. All of the other birds had escaped to the water as Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The wondrous discovery of The Dandelion (Little Margo Stories)
(courtesy YouTube (c) Little Largo Stories) As we get older, we all too often lose sight of what it is to discover something for the first time. All that wonder and thrill of discover ebbs away and we’re left feeling like we’ve seen it all before and that nothing will Continue Reading
Happiness is a The Snoopy Show Christmas episode: “Happiness is Holiday Traditions” / “Window Wonderland” / “Spike’s Old-Fashioned Christmas”
(courtesy AppleTV+) If ever any pop culture property had a hold on what a Christmas tradition is, it’s Peanuts. The iconic and much-loved comic strip by Charles M. Schulz has become almost as well known for its exquisitely well-drawn and joyously nuanced television specials such as A Charlie Brown Christmas, Continue Reading
The short and the festive short of it: The Real Santa aka Father Christmas
(courtesy YouTube) Oh my heart! What a lovely story and yes, it might be an ad for Netto Marken-Discount in Hannover, Germany but it has so much originality and warmth and loveliness that you want to watch it again and again. Focusing on the idea that “It’s a gift to Continue Reading
The short and the Christmas short of it: Gordon Goose – Christmas Tree
(courtesy YouTube) Gordon Goose, so his official page says, is a “typical corpo goose with atypical life” with a work life that is, we’re assured, even worse than the one you’re enduring. Still, even with all that corporate existential angst drilling a great big hole into his soul, Gordon finds Continue Reading
The short and the festive short of it: Believe in Christmas and No one Should be Alone at Christmas
(courtesy Stream Wars (c) Kurzfilm | Weihnachten Werbeclip der Erste Group Bank AG) Animated short films, especially those without dialogue, can really tell a powerfully impactful festive story with the most elegantly simple of ingredients. These two short films, which are, yes, ads in their own way, convey so much Continue Reading