Acting by the two leads and the rest of the cast is very physical, sometimes manically expressive, the music of different genres and styles is always loud, so the aesthetics of the film gets dangerously close to the music video territory.
The 19-minute runtime is divided in ten chapters that vary in length from under a minute snippets to a few minutes long sequences with the titles taken directly from The Bible.
Jung opts for detailed and soft hand-drawn animation in pencil and for a dialogue-free approach, making Invisible Eyes more accessible and more open to interpretation.
When the gold is discovered on the top of the mountain, different men go there to try their luck and get rich, only to be eaten, literally as well as metaphorically, by the gold they found.
‘Carnivorous Bean Sprout’ is an animated short film that uses clay figurines and 2D computer-rendered backgrounds to tell the story about the varieties of human behaviour in the face of danger
When combined, solitude, recent tragedy and traumas from the past can prove to be a lethal cocktail inducing an overdose of regrets, as it is the case with Santiago Meneghini’s exquisitely spooky and metaphorical short Regret.
Quiet, almost muted as it is, So What If the Goats Die speaks volumes to the audience, not about the possible life with the aliens, but about the life as it is, as we know and live.
In Nalle Sjöblad’s ‘Limbo’, the light “horror” style serves its purpose to mask a straight-up social drama that lays in the centre of the plot, making it a possible programming choice for both genre-oriented and “regular” film festivals…
Heat is predominantly a dark comedy, laced with the elements of body horror realized through a variety of outlandish and even cartoonish, but highly effective visual- and special make-up effects, done by Thaumar Rep and Rob Hillenbrink, respectively.
