SXSW Film Review: Animated Shorts
A solid anthology of animation
By Wayne Alan Brenner, 11:13AM, Mon. Mar. 16, 2009
Here's an anthology of, yes, short animated films – some of them in familiar cartoon style, some stop-motion works, some a sequential flurry of complex paintings. The subjects match the compositional diversity, providing narratives like Felix Dufour-Laperrire's gentle and texturally dense "Rosa Rosa," about a pair of lovers making a home together in the midst of a war-torn city; Laurie Hill's "Photograph of Jesus," in which the strange requests made of an historical photography archive are vividly realized; local man Lance Myers' "Here's the Stapler If You Need It," a kooky and ultimately bloody tale involving the paper cutter at a copyshop; and the incredible claymation mindfuck called "Trepan Hole," a wildly inventive choreography of clay, color, and figures in a landscape as otherworldly and simultaneously familiar as the furrows deep within your own brain. The collection's well worth viewing – multiple times, if you skip the SXSWClick winner "Haunted House."
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SXSW, Animated Shorts, "Rosa Rosa", "Photograph of Jesus", "Here's the Stapler If You Need It", "Trepan Hole", "Haunted House"
