Just barely containing more good than bad, this shorts collection goes all over the map. No common style, theme, or even level of quality.
Superhero Wannabe: Not bad. He looks more like he's fighting the gramma than rescuing her, but it's a nice entertaining piece.
Elephant Shoe: Strange, but different. Gets points for originality. Not the best piece in the collection, but good.
Black Ink On Sky-Blue: This is stop-motion animation of fingerpainting with black ink. Even worse than it sounds.
choke: An unusual style is used here, telling a story by having the main characters narrate at you and tell you the story intead of acting the story out so you can see it. I guess this is what you do when your actors can't act and you have a story you need to tell anyway. Not recommendable, but certainly interesting for its unique style.
white out: Here's the best piece. It's got a ghost zombie in it. They're snowboarders, too. Hence the name.
Corps etrangers: Absolutely the worst piece of the set. I have three theories to explain how such a travesty occurred: 1) The director has never heard of editing and used all the footage he had. 2) The director had an editor, who did their job and edited down to about 30 seconds in length (it's a half hour piece), and the director got mad and fired the editor and showed it "uncut". 3) The director edited it himself, and through either malice or stupidity cut out all the meaningful/interesting bits, and gave us these grim leftovers of what might have been a fine short film. Each of these 3 possibilities is equally likely.
Posted by Task at September 19, 2004 01:31 PM