{"id":38913,"date":"2023-02-18T05:53:19","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T10:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=38913"},"modified":"2023-02-18T05:53:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T10:53:19","slug":"an-ostrich-told-me-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/18\/an-ostrich-told-me-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ostrich Told Me the World Is Fake and I Think I Believe It (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/anostrich.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38914\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/anostrich.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/anostrich.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/anostrich-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/anostrich-2x1.jpg 2w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Director Lachlan Pendragon\u2019s \u201cAn Ostrich\u2026\u201d is probably one of the more inventive shorts about creating, the idea of a higher being, and what happens when our creations take on a life of their own. \u201cAn Ostrich\u2026\u201d utilizes interesting filmmaking mediums and a collaboration of two art forms to unfold a very self aware and entertaining meta-satire.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Neil is an office worker who spirals after an Ostrich reveals that he is in a stop-motion animation. Neil, now awake to his surroundings, struggles to convince his co-workers that they too are a part of stop motion film. But it becomes tough to convince them. \u201cAn Ostrich\u2026\u201d is such a clever and entertaining short that really works toward exploring a tale about self-awareness, while also demonstrating the tough work of stop motion.<\/p>\n<p>Director Pendragon keeps the story framed within a camera lens, showing on the outside the animators working tirelessly as the narrative within, unfolds for us. The stop motion is absolutely brisk and flawless with some keen comic timing, and some great bizarre sight gags. There\u2019s a lot of focus on the artificial aesthetic, including a moment where Neil looks out of the office window noticing that it\u2019s flickering as a green screen. The only problem is that the office workers don\u2019t realize it.<\/p>\n<p>Soon it becomes a question on if they don\u2019t realize it, or if they don\u2019t want to realize it. Is Neil better off not realizing he\u2019s just a creative work from a higher master, or is he doomed to carry the knowledge of his life as a stop motion puppet with no real chance of escaping? \u201cAn Ostrich\u2026\u201d works on so many dimensions with positing interesting existential ideas along with great overtones about life, and purpose. There is also of course the look in to the grudging task of the stop motion animation process, and how Pendragon commits to a remarkable feat with his clear work of love in \u201cAn Ostrich\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Lachlan Pendragon\u2019s \u201cAn Ostrich\u2026\u201d is probably one of the more inventive shorts about creating, the idea of a higher being, and what happens when our creations take on a life of their own. \u201cAn Ostrich\u2026\u201d utilizes interesting filmmaking mediums and a collaboration of two art forms to unfold a very self aware and entertaining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[99,219,367,501,898,989],"class_list":["post-38913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-indie","category-movie-reviews","tag-animation","tag-comedy","tag-foreign","tag-indie-film","tag-satire","tag-stop-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38913","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38915,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38913\/revisions\/38915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}