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Written by Noralil Ryan Fores
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
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 Beautifully executed in both its vivid visuals and desolate sound design, Michael Faust and Ariel Belinco's Beton tries a bit too hard for its metaphors to have great meaning. In exploring the divisions of warring nations, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict just concealed, the short animation falls prey to its own politically conscious cuteness. Read more.
 A construction worker loves a tightrope walker. A homeless man lives in a tunnel with his dog. A child ambles down the street, his mother clutching onto his hand. In Florence Miailhe's hand painted Conte de Quartier, all are strangely connected by the nondescript glimmering dust stashed within the cotton depths of an otherwise insignificant doll. Read more.
 Based on Chet Williamson's 1983 New Yorker short story, Stephanie Argy and Alec Boehm's Gandhi At the Bat fantasizes a moment of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's 1933 media record vanished visit to the United States. Told in a playful newsreel format, the ball game short sets the world peace leader between the New York Yankees and the Philly A's, his quiet charm landing him in the professional diamond best perhaps as only a one hit wonder. Read more.
 As a thunderstorm rages outside, a little girl watches the television, her imagination making tangible the images she sees on screen. An animated nightmare, Erik Rosenlund's Looking Glass questions the boundlessness of fantasy in sharp, thick strokes of a black and white palette. Innocence and danger meet in a blurred space here, recalling the gruesome origins of fairy tale. Read more.
 Jack Feldstein's neonist animation Shmetamorphosis is stranger than its narrative influence Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. Yet, with that astounding oddity comes a fair amount of inspired brilliance. As a self-important psychotherapist attempts to help a buggy patient deal with the insanity of a fragmented family life, the short rambles out with its appropriated imagery in shocking one liners, one of which somewhat inexplicably includes a reference to Snow White's hymen. Thought jarring, often visually abrasive but also intriguing in its original freakishness, Shmetamorphosis is the type of offbeat film festivals exist to screen. Read more.
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Noralil Ryan Fores |
| About the author: |
| Editor. A perpetual wanderer both literally and metaphorically, Noralil Ryan Fores grew up in a theater with an acting teacher for a mother and a professional videographer for a father. Right in line with her upbringing, she went on to study in the film program at Florida State University then jumped ship to grab a graduate degree in Magazine, Newspaper and Online Journalism from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. She has interned for South Florida's City Link Magazine and served as an editorial assistant for MovieMaker Magazine. Currently, she lives and writes from Atlanta. |
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