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Short Film of the Month
Feb. 28th, 2019 08:37 amI watched a lot of great short films this month! I tried to winnow it down to three recommendations, but once I saw Kitbull I simply had to include it (I've already sent links to it to like five of my IRL friends) so I’m sort of cheating by bundling two films together on the grounds that they have the same director.
1. There’s a genre of short film - I’m not sure if it’s widespread in short films in general or if there’s just someone at Short of the Week who really likes it - that might be described as “A Family Grieves.” Generally speaking I am not a fan.
But Pepe Le Morse, a French animated film about a family going to their grandfather’s favorite beach to mourn his recent death, won me over. The animation is beautiful (the beach grasses!), the emotional tone is understated, and the film develops in a magical realism direction as strange and potentially dangerous and beautiful as the sea.
2. When I saw Greta Nash’s film Locker Room (a teenage girl in Australia discovers her male friends’ creepy group chat rating their female classmates; a thoughtful, sensitive picture of how thoughtless and insensitive adolescents can be) I liked it so much that I searched out her website, where I found Happy Dance, a short documentary about groups in China - mostly older women, but also some young mothers, a few men, really anyone who wants to come join them - which meet daily in neighborhood squares to dance.
It really is happy - just unabashedly happy. It’s so rare to see anything that happy these days.
3. Last but certainly not least! - Kitbull, the cutest thing you will see all week, in which a feral kitten that is basically a soot sprite with eyes and a tail befriends an abused pitbull and it is SO CUTE, YOU GUYS. SO CUTE. SO MANY FEELS.
Also this is the third Pixar short within the last year that has been directed by a woman and I am HOPING that this means that Pixar will soon have more women directing feature films… although the next two films on their docket are both directed by men, so clearly I shouldn’t get my hopes up too high.
1. There’s a genre of short film - I’m not sure if it’s widespread in short films in general or if there’s just someone at Short of the Week who really likes it - that might be described as “A Family Grieves.” Generally speaking I am not a fan.
But Pepe Le Morse, a French animated film about a family going to their grandfather’s favorite beach to mourn his recent death, won me over. The animation is beautiful (the beach grasses!), the emotional tone is understated, and the film develops in a magical realism direction as strange and potentially dangerous and beautiful as the sea.
2. When I saw Greta Nash’s film Locker Room (a teenage girl in Australia discovers her male friends’ creepy group chat rating their female classmates; a thoughtful, sensitive picture of how thoughtless and insensitive adolescents can be) I liked it so much that I searched out her website, where I found Happy Dance, a short documentary about groups in China - mostly older women, but also some young mothers, a few men, really anyone who wants to come join them - which meet daily in neighborhood squares to dance.
It really is happy - just unabashedly happy. It’s so rare to see anything that happy these days.
3. Last but certainly not least! - Kitbull, the cutest thing you will see all week, in which a feral kitten that is basically a soot sprite with eyes and a tail befriends an abused pitbull and it is SO CUTE, YOU GUYS. SO CUTE. SO MANY FEELS.
Also this is the third Pixar short within the last year that has been directed by a woman and I am HOPING that this means that Pixar will soon have more women directing feature films… although the next two films on their docket are both directed by men, so clearly I shouldn’t get my hopes up too high.
