{"id":22973,"date":"2016-10-28T20:49:54","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T00:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=22973"},"modified":"2016-10-28T20:50:31","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T00:50:31","slug":"animated-shorts-block-horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/28\/animated-shorts-block-horrible-imaginings-film-festival-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Animated Shorts Block [Horrible Imaginings Film Festival 2016]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"animated-shorts-block-part-1\"<\/a>Dad\u2019s Fragile Doll (Iran) (2014)<\/strong>
\nA young girl uses imagination to mentally work through her family situation.\u00a0 The film by Ali Zareghanatnowi has an interesting animation style that looks like moving sketches.\u00a0 The style is visually appealing but can become too much in scenes with more action, which is unfortunate.\u00a0 The film shows the horrors that humanity can do and how a young girl uses the power of imagination to help herself.\u00a0 This short shows that imagination liberates you, frees you of your cage, of your oppressor.\u00a0 The use of dolls and animation as surrogates for reality brings forth the message and the emotions.<\/p>\n

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3:14 (Mexico) (2015)<\/strong>
\nThis student project about what happens at 3:14a.m. to a man who has been on the road for 10 hours and is losing his sanity is only partially animation with a live action portion.\u00a0 This short by Patricio Marin Avelar is stylish and keeps the attention throughout even though what is happening is not always very clear.\u00a0 The film\u2019s subject and its story feel a bit like they are left up to interpretation as to why things are happening the way they are.\u00a0 The end credits with what looks like story boards are well done and interesting to watch.<\/p>\n

Beware of Bunny (USA) (2015)
\n<\/strong>In director Rebecca Gill\u2019s animated short, a young boy named Enrique finds the cutest bunny while walking home.\u00a0 The bunny gets attached to him and turns out to have a hidden side.\u00a0 In the infamous words of more knowledgeable gentlemen \u201cthat\u2019s no ordinary bunny\u201d.\u00a0 This short is adorable and dark all at once, it\u2019s also fun while being just a little creepy.\u00a0 The sweetness is not overly so and its works well within the film\u2019s environment.\u00a0 This bunny would fool anyone, so it fooling a child is believable.\u00a0 The animation style here is like a dark Happy Tree Friends with a bit more emphasis on the evil side of the bunny than those cartoons would have put while also being less bloody.\u00a0 The short Beware of Bunny is almost child friendly but not quite.<\/p>\n

AD\u00a0 RE (Columbia) (2016)<\/strong>
\nThis super short short follows Faust as he approaches a girl and things change from dream to reality or nightmare.\u00a0 This animated short by Duban Rodriguez has an interesting animation style and sound design as it starts silent, then gets a bit of sound, and gradually adds sound and music to its audio element.\u00a0 The film has a mystery to it as not everything is clear and the ending leaves some questions unanswered.<\/p>\n

Balloon Ride (Australia) (2015)<\/strong>
\nThis stop-motion animation short follows a young boy as he dreams of floating away with his mom, away from his abusive father.\u00a0 The fear this boy lives under fuels this dream until it all comes crashing down on him.\u00a0 Director Evan Hughes takes a difficult subject, domestic violence and abuse, and makes a beautifully sad film that hits right in the feels.\u00a0 His film shows how imagination can save a child from a horrible situation.\u00a0 Similarly to Dad\u2019s Fragile Doll, the film explores the power of imagination when a person or a child is placed in a situation that is hard for them, too hard to deal with head on.\u00a0 Balloon Ride does this in a less political way as it\u2019s not an external force such as war that is affecting the child directly or indirectly, but an internal one, one the child has a conflict in wanting to run from.<\/p>\n

\"animated-shorts-block-part-2\"<\/a>Travel by Feet (Spain) (2015)<\/strong>
\nDirector Khris Cembe\u2019s short is an animation geared towards adults not only in content but in style as well; it looks very pretty from the opening on.\u00a0 On a train at night, a man is saddled with a stinky compartment mate so he finds ways to escape him.\u00a0 The animation style for Travel by Feet is very European, reminiscent of more mature animations that are more widely distributed.\u00a0 The film is mature yet almost darkly whimsical as it follows a man who just wants to have some peace yet gets road block after road block.\u00a0 The film is visually beautiful with a darkness that can appeal to most audiences but especially to horror fans.\u00a0 This short is one of the few that could definitely work as a feature.<\/p>\n

The Detectives of Noir Town (Australia) (2015)
\n<\/strong>In this puppets and people hybrid, puppets and people live in the same town.\u00a0 A puppet detective investigates the disappearance of his uncle while competing with a human detective.\u00a0 In this short written by Andrew Chambers and Paul Layton, based on a story by Chambers, and directed by Chambers as well, the puppets mix with their human counterparts as if it were entirely normal, bringing the audience into their world.\u00a0 The mystery they all work on is interesting and keeps the attention of the audience.\u00a0 The puppets in this short look fantastic and the way its shot, with cinematography by Patrick Smith, gives it a specific style and harks back to the noir films of decades past.\u00a0 The Detectives of Noir Town is a fun mystery with great looking puppets and good human cast going through some almost ridiculous things.<\/p>\n

Cat Killer (USA) (2015)<\/strong>
\nDirector Jeff Dorer creates a high contrast black and white animation that is highly stylized.\u00a0 The story of Cat Killer is that of an exterminator hired to rid an abandoned building of his feral cat population.\u00a0 His technique is unorthodox and more than a bit cruel.\u00a0 Cat Killer is a short with a lot of visual impact as it catches the eye and keeps the interest.\u00a0 It\u2019s a film that deals with reality and dreams to an extent while having stark images and a difficult subject matter to some.\u00a0 This is a short film that may make some unhappy and want to turn it off due to this subject matter and how it\u2019s handled.<\/p>\n

The Marshalls (UK) (2016)
\n<\/strong>Director Adeena Grubb\u2019s stop-motion animation short feels like it\u2019s fallen right out of The Corpse Bride and other Burton films with a smidge of extra darkness.\u00a0 Everything seen on the screen, from characters to sets, is made by director Grubb and painstakingly shot in 2,208 images and her attention to detail and passion show in each one of them.\u00a0 The film starts off a bit dreamy and slowly adds gruesome elements.\u00a0 The music adds to the dreamy side of things creating an atmosphere, completing the feeling of the film.\u00a0 The film\u2019s story is simple, showing the life of a family with a dark secret.\u00a0 This one is perfect for fans of the odd and unusual.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dad\u2019s Fragile Doll (Iran) (2014) A young girl uses imagination to mentally work through her family situation.\u00a0 The film by Ali Zareghanatnowi has an interesting animation style that looks like moving sketches.\u00a0 The style is visually appealing but can become too much in scenes with more action, which is unfortunate.\u00a0 The film shows the horrors […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1284,7,12],"tags":[99,367,477,501,938,989],"class_list":["post-22973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-festivalsevents","category-halloween-horror-month","category-movie-reviews","tag-animation","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-short-film","tag-stop-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22973"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22978,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22973\/revisions\/22978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}